Research LaboratoriesWatkins-Haggart Structural Engineering Laboratory
As a compliment to the reaction floor, the Lab also has an extremely versatile self-contained reaction frame that was donated by US Steel Corporation. Loading for full-scale servo-controlled hydraulic actuators whose capacity's range from a few hundred pounds up to 300,000 pounds each. The actuators are controlled by state-of-the-art MTS digital closed-loop servo-hydraulic control systems and hydraulic power is supplied by two 60 gpm 3000 psi hydraulic power units. A series of universal test frames that range in capacity from 20,000 pounds to 500,000 pounds are also housed in the Wilkins-Haggart Structural Engineering Laboratory.
The Watkins-Haggart Structural Engineering Laboratory was endowed in December 1989 in memory Thomas Alfred Watkins (1861-1923), Clarence Bigham Watkins (1883-1958) and Cecil Neil Haggart (1875-1939), Engineers and Builders. |
The Watkins-Haggart Structural Engineering Laboratory is the facility at the heart of the experimental structural engineering research efforts at the University of Pittsburgh. This unique facility is located in the sub-basement of Benedum Hall on the main campus of the University of Pittsburgh in Oakland. The Lab is a 4000 square foot high-bay testing facility with a massive reaction floor. The high-bay testing area is serviced by a 10 ton radio controlled bridge crane. In addition, a fork truck and heavy equipment mover provide for additional lifting and moving capacity.
The laboratory has a number of computer controlled data acquisition systems that allow for the automated reading and recording of over 130 discrete channels of instrumentation. The lab has full-scale nondestructive evaluation equipment and field-testing equipment suitable for a variety of in situ test programs.Research rankings
Pitt ranks 10th in National Science Foundation Rankings for research funding.
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