Donors recognized for contribution to CEE structures lab

Monday, October 6, 2014

A new actuator and frame in the civil and environmental engineering structures lab is helping faculty and students conduct research on civil infrastructure rehabilitation.

A recent celebration in the lab recognized the four industry donors –Donors and students Walters Group, Salit Steel, MTE Consultants Inc. and R.M. Schuster Structural Engineering – who contributed materials, fabrication, and design calculations for the new portal frame that supports the actuator acquired through a Canada Foundation for Innovation grant.

”It is now the biggest frame in our lab and we expect that it will have a significant impact on our research capabilities for many years to come,” says Scott Walbridgethe CEE Structures Lab faculty coordinator. “With this equipment, we will be able to bring close to full-scale structural components such as steel or concrete bridge girder or building column specimens into the structures lab and test them until failure.”

The equipment is officially known as the Professor Khaled Soudki Structural Testing Frame named in memory of the civil and environmental engineering professor who died last year.