Richard K. Faris ’69 CE, ’70 MSCE Structural Engineering Teaching and Research Laboratory

Director: Joseph Yost, PhD, PE, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering 

Focus: Testing on a variety of full-scale and component size infrastructure elements.

Students Learn:

• Structural behavior of rod web joists
• Concrete durability test
• Gypsum and wood viscoelastic polymer connections
• Continuous concrete beams reinforced with GFRP
• Ductile joist study
• Flexural performance of composite concrete flooring systems

Facility Highlights:

The SETRL contains:

• Reaction floor and wall
• Materials characterization laboratory
• Moisture curing room
• Environmentally controlled testing room
• 25 Ton Overload Crane
• 400 Kip Self Reacting Test Frame
• Data Acquisition Systems
• Machine Shop
• Environmental Chamber
• MTS Hydraulic Systems
• MTS Universal Testing Machines
• 600 Kip Forney Compression Testing Machine
• Charpy Impact Tester