Full-Scale Girder Test Facility

Director: Dr. Richard Miller

This facility, located at a local prestressing yard, is available for testing of full-scale girders as long as 120 ft.  The facility has a dedicated 20-gpm pump, one 350-kip servo-valve controlled actuator, one 35-kip servo-valve controlled actuator, a 4-channel digital servo controller, a 64-channel data acquisition system (32 channels of which are used for measuring long-term data from vibrating wire transducers), and a complete suite of instruments.