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SEMM Facilities

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech is equipped with state-of-the-art laboratories and instruments, appropriate for all aspects of modern structural engineering and structural mechanics and materials research. Some of these include:

  • An 18,000-ft² Structures and Materials Laboratory with an 8,000 ft² strong floor, an L-shaped reaction wall with capacities of 100-300 kips, and two 30-ton-capacity cranes.
  • A broad range of universal testing machines, with capacity to 400 kips.
  • Specialized facilities for mechanical testing with infrared thermography and photoelastic stress/strain analysis.
  • A nondestructive evaluation/optics laboratory.
  • A laser scanning confocal microscope.
  • Numerous high-performance work stations equipped with state-of-the-art software in structural engineering and mechanics.