Facilities and Major Equipment
(Note: Square footage for labs includes some spaces shared among CE specialties.)
Transportation Engineering
Traffic Signal Laboratory (800 square feet)
- Cabinets: two, standard
- Controllers: Econolite ASC8000, Eagle ATCnx, and Eagle EPAC 300
- Detection Systems: Sensys access point and puck, Peek camera VideoTrak IQ system, Inductive loop detector, Tomar Strobecom II Optical Preemption Detector, and pedestrian push buttons.
- Signal heads: 3-section heads, 5-section heads, and pedestrian signal head
Traffic Simulation Laboratory (analytical and modeling software) (330 square feet)
- Synchro
- Vissim
- Paramics
- HCS
- TSIS-CORSIMTM
- ArcGIS
Vehicle Driving Simulator Laboratory (1,150 square feet)
- STISIM vehicle driving simulator system
- 3 low-throw projectors with screens
- Compact car shell (front end)
- Instrumented dashboard
- Integrated pedals and steering wheel
Geotechnical Engineering
Soils Laboratory (1,300 square feet)
- One-Dimensional Consolidation Load Frames, pneumatic (6)
- Unconfined Compression/CBR Load frames (4)
- Fully Automated Triaxial Load frame with pressure and flow control
- Electrical resistivity imaging system, 28 probes, switchbox grid, 2D and 3D inversion software
- Fully Automated Load frame for Unconfined Compression and CBR tests
- Triaxial Shear Testing B*K model S-600 triaxial load frame with 4-inch cell
- Triaxial/Permeameter control panel, three pressure/flow measurement channels
- Triaxial Cell - 12-inch diameter
- Soil grinder
- Direct Shear Test machine (5)
- Dynamic Cone Penetration Test (DCPT)
- Digital Point Load Test Apparatus
- Slake Durability Tester
- Mechanical Soil Compactor, 5.5 and 10 pound rammers
- Manual Soil Compaction hammers (5.5 and 10 lb), molds with base and collars (4-inch and 6-inch)
- Jet Erosion Tester apparatus
- Levee/Floodwall Simulator
- Mechanical sieve shaker (12-inch)
- Sample extruder (3-inch Shelby tubes)
- Permeability Test apparatus (4), Falling-Head and Constant Head, 2.8-inch rigid permeameter cells
- Sedimentation cylinders for hydrometer particle size test
- Computer data acquisition systems
- Convection, drying ovens (3)
Asphalt and Aggregate Laboratory (500 square feet)
- Rainhart model 144SHRP gyratory compactor
- Hyvac Products model HYVAC1 vacuum pump
- Humboldt Mfg. Co. model H1390 Heated Water Bath
- Quincy Labs model 21-350 forced-air oven
- Rainhart Mechanical sieve shaker (12-inch)
- Gilson model HM-70A LA Abrasion test machine
- Gilson model TS-2 testing screen shaker
- Peerless model 3684 gas convection oven
- Thermolyne model F585938 NCAT furnace, 650°C max
- BICO model VD Chipmunk (Jaw-type) rock crusher
- Ploog Engineering model SC1165 sand shaker
- Gilson model SH-104 sulfate soundness test set
Applied Fluid Mechanics Laboratory (1,400 square feet)
- Fluid Circuits Demonstrator
- Flume Experiments Station
- Centrifugal Pumps and Piping Trainer
- Ultrasonic Flow Level Sensors (2)
- Erosion Function Apparatus (EFA)
- Water Level Sensors/Dataloggers (5)
Concrete Lab (1,300 square feet)
- Humboldt Manufacturing Model HCM-3000/5080 Automated Concrete Test Machine
- Logan model H-3185 Freeze-thaw cabinet
- Gilson electric concrete mixer, 3 cu ft
- Quincy Labs model 21-350 forced-air oven, 437F max
- ELE model 35-2480 concrete resonant frequency tester
Structural and Materials Testing Lab (1,800 square feet)
- Cyclic Triaxial and Resilient Modulus testing using MTS servo-hydraulic load frame
- Laminar soil box on shake table
Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
Environmental Engineering Lab (1,600 square feet)
- One-Dimensional Consolidation Load Frames, pneumatic (6)
- Autoclave
- Balances digital precision (4)
- Cabinetized still
- Centrifuge
- Centrifuge, with angle rotor
- Circulator, immersion (2)
- COD Reactor (4)
- COD Digestion block
- Conductivity meters (5)
- CST meter, multipurpose, Type 319
- Dispensing pump
- Dissolved oxygen meter
- Fluorometer, Turner 112
- Fraction collector
- Incubator, 30.4 cu ft
- Microscope camera
- Microscope, binocular (2)
- Mixer system
- Muffle furnaces (3)
- Oven, drying (2)
- Oxygen meter
- Particle charge detector
- pH Meters (3)
- Refrigerator
- Self-stirring BOD probe (2)
- Shaker, compact flat orbital
- Spectrophotometer, Hach DR2000 (5)
- Spectrophotometer, SQ2800
- Spectrophotometer, Thermo Scientific, Genesys 20 (5)
- Stirrer, 6-paddle (2)
- Stream Flow Meter w wading rod, Hach FH950.10020
- Stream Flow Meter, with top-setting wading rod, 4ft YSI Flowtracker 2
- Turbidimeter Lab 2100 (5)
- Turbidimeter, portable Hanna HI-98703
- Vacuum pump
- Viscometer, digital with UL adapter, Brookfield DV-II
- Wastewater sampler
- Wastewater sampler, 2-pump
- Water bath (2)
Applied Fluid Mechanics Lab (1,400 square feet)
- Hampden Engineering model H-6530 hydraulic channel demonstrator
- Hampden Engineering model H-6925 fluid circuit demonstrator
- Humboldt model HM-4000 Erosion Function Apparatus
- Stream table with fine-mist spray heads
- Pump and Piping Systems Trainer (designed and built by SIUE staff)
- Erosion Function Apparatus (EFA)
- ISCO Teledyne model 2210 Flow Measurement system
- Various pressure and flow measurement sensors
Structural Engineering
Structural and Materials Testing Lab (1,800 square feet)
- MTS servo-hydraulic load frame (550,000-lb max force)
- MTS servo-hydraulic load frame (55,000-lb max force)
- MTS servo-hydraulic actuator (11,000-lb max force, 10-inch stroke)
- MTS servo-hydraulic actuator (22,000-lb max force, 4-inch stroke
- MTS servo-hydraulic actuator (35,000-lb max force, 10-inch stroke)
- MTS servo-hydraulic actuator (36,000-lb max force, 4-inch stroke)
- MTS model 651.06 environmental chamber
- Uesco Industries model SG-UR-DM overhead crane, 10-ton capacity
- Shake table, 5-kip weight capacity
Materials Testing Lab (1,200 square feet)
- Instron Electro-mechanical load frame, 67,000-lb capacity
- Tinius Olsen Electro-mechanical load frame, 5,000-lb capacity
- Tinius Olsen Torsion test machine, 10,000-inch*lb capacity, digital retrofit
