The School operates a range of state-of-the-art laboratory facilities for teaching professional engineering courses and support research activities.

Computer laboratories

The schools computer laboratory precinct comprises 4 individual laboratories equipped with a total of 115 Pentium computers along with a number of peripherals for printing and data projection.  The School holds licenses for a wide range of generic software as well as specialist engineering software to support activities in learning and research:

• Matlab + Simulink (multi-purpose engineering programming platform)
• ADAMS (kinematics and kinetic analysis)
• Dadisp (signal analysis)
• VeePro (High level data analysis)
• MEScope Modal and Operation Deflection Shape analysis
• SPACE-GASS (Structural analysis)
• SLOPE/W (Soil analysis)
• XP-UDD32 & XP-SWMM &nbsp(Hydraulic analysis)
• SIDRA (Highway & traffic design)
• Microsoft Project (Project management)
• STRAND 7 (Finite element modelling and analysis)
• ANSYS (Finite element modelling and analysis)
• STATICS & MD SOLIDS &nbsp(Solid mechanics package)
• ICATS (Modal analysis)
• HYENA (Air conditionning design and simulation)
• SIGMA PLOT (Scientific statistical analysis and plotting tool),
• FLOW 3D (Computational Fluid Dynamics)
• Auto CAD & CIVILCAD (Computer aided design)
• RORB (Hydraulic simulation)
• EPANET (Water resources analysis and design)

Thermo-Fluids and Environmental Engineering Laboratory

• Subsonic wind tunnel with 3 component load cell
• Dantec 3-component hot wire anemometry system.
• Particle Image Velocimetry system.
• Flow meters.
• Water quality samplers.
• Computer-controlled wave tank (21 m)

Materials, Geomechanics and Surveying Laboratory

Dynamic Mechanical Analyser (-70 C to 500 C).

• Tri-axial soil testing machine.
• Flexible wall soil permeameter.

The recently refurbished Mechanics Laboratory precinct includes the Undergraduate Statics Laboratory which supports activities in Solid Mechanics and Stress Analysis, and the Undergraduate Dynamics Laboratory which support activities in Mechanics of Machines, Mechanical Vibration, Signal Measurement and Analysis, and Modal Analysis.  The sate-of-the-art Mechanics Research Laboratory supports the research activities of both staff and post-graduate research students and is equipped with a wide range of experimental facilities such as:

• 50 kN Instron 8501 computer controlled dynamic universal testing machine & vibration table
• 20 kN, 100 KN and 300 kN universal testing machines with computer interface.
• 2000 kN compression testing machine.
• Data Physics DP550 Vibration controller
• Electromagnetic vibration shakers - 2000N, 400 N and 100N.
• Lansmont Electro-hydraulic vibration table - 10 g / 1000 kG
• Lansmont programmable Shock generator 600 g.
• Bruel & Kjaer 2032 Real-time signal analyser
• Data Physics DP430 Real-time signal analyser
• B&K 2032 real-time signal analyser
• SRS 785 real-time signal analyser
• 4 channel high-capacity programmable data recorder (50 kHz)
• Kron Hite tunnable frequency filters (2)
• Computer-based data acquisition systems
• Sound level and sound intensity probes.
• Bruel & Kjaer laser vibrometer.
• Walk-in programmable climatic chamber (-15 %B0C to 70 %B0C).
• 300 Lts. programmable climatic chamber (-15 %B0C to 70 %B0C).
• 300 Lts. programmable temperature chamber (-20 %B0C - 70 %B0C)
• 120 channel Hewlett-Packard data logger.
• Non-contact temperature sensor.
• Wide range of sensors and amplifiers for the measurement of acceleration, velocity, displacement, force, temperature and pressure.

The Mechanics Research laboratory also operates a specialist Cable Mechanical Testing Laboratory on behalf of Olex cables.  This laboratory is capable of evaluating the short-term and long-term (creep) and thermal elongation characteristics of cables under controlled environments.

Workshops

The School's workshops contain a wide range of machinning and manufacturing equipment for producing
working prototypes, experimental devices and special purpose instruments.