Light Structures Laboratory

This teaching laboratory is equipped with facilities that could enhance the students understanding on theoretical aspects learned in Strength of Materials and Theory of Structures courses. It is equipped with the following equipment: 

• Shear force and bending moment apparatus
• Pendulum impact tester
• Simple creep test apparatus
• Beam apparatus
• Unsymmetrically loaded cantilever apparatus
• Shear center apparatus
• Thick cylinder apparatus
• Thin cylinder apparatus
• Curved bar apparatus
• Portal frame apparatus
• Strut buckling apparatus
• Sag and tension in cable apparatus
• Three hinged arch apparatus
• Two hinged arch apparatus
• Continuous beam apparatus
• Electronic data acquisition system