The Accelerator Building

Department of Civil Engineering

 

Current Staff

  • Dr. E. K. Ervin, Faculty, Civil Engineering
  • Weiping Xu, Ph.D. student, Civil Engineering
  • Summer Su, Masters student, Civil Engineering

 

Current Work

  • Research in Blast with Fluid Effects, CSNERG Project sponsored by ONR, Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering (in progress)
  • Structural Health Monitoring, Civil Engineering, Miltec (Proposed congressional initiative)
  • MRI and BRIGE projects (Proposed to NSF)
  • Vibration model of termite head-banging (with Dr. Tom Fink, NCPA)
  • Nuclear engineering curriculum development (Proposed to NRC)
  • Outreach Activities (Proposed to various)

 

Potential Collaborative Projects

  • Composite material modeling (Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering)
  • Experimental verification (School of Engineering, NCPA, companies)
  • Model reduction methods (Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering)
  • Impacting flexible structures (Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, companies)
  • Coupled motion (Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, companies)

 

Equipment

 

Visit our Shaking Page!

 

LDS Model 650/PA2000 Shaker System (shaker, amplifier, blower)

 

Vibration World DVC-4 PC Based Vibration Controller (Four channels; Integral charge; Sine, Random and Shock)

 

National Instruments CompactDAQ 16-channel USB data acquisition system

 

National Instruments LabVIEW, Spectral Dynamics SigLab, and MEScope

 

Multiple Piezoelectric Accelerometers, Impact Hammer

 

 

Facility

 

The Accelerator Building has been reserved specifically for the new Multi-Function Dynamics Laboratory. The current plan for the Multi-Function Dynamics Laboratory is shown below. Of the available 2,124 square feet, 1,072 square feet will be laboratory space and 464 square feet in reserved for storage and expansion space after renovation.

 

 
 

Since its equipment will also be used for education, the laboratory will be truly multi-functional and interdisciplinary. It will be used to support the freshmen Introduction to Engineering courses as well as 500- and 600-level graduate courses in the School of Engineering curriculum. The lab will also serve for research experiences for undergraduate and graduate students and demonstrative experiences for younger students or unfamiliar professionals. Eventually, the lab will also have individual stations which can be used independently as separate research ventures.