{"id":3721,"date":"2021-06-09T04:15:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T20:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/?page_id=3721"},"modified":"2025-01-29T15:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T07:32:12","slug":"our-facilities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/learning-teaching\/science-engineering\/school-of-civil-mechanical-engineering\/our-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Our facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/civil-mech-eng-facilities-720x405-2.jpg\" alt=\"Student working on a robotics project\" class=\"wp-image-6040\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Equipment and facilities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The School has acquired laboratory facilities worth over $5 million, including pavement\/geotechnology research facilities, water laboratory enhancements, structures, including a heavy-testing-rig with 500t capacity, bio-activated laboratories, and earthquake engineering facilities (stress -tubes and canon impact, earthquake engineering and blast impact engineering).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Other facilities<\/h2>\n\n\n<mimas-block \n        block-name=\"accordion\"\n        role=\"complementary\"\n        aria-label=\"Accordion content\"\n        data-segment=\"all\">\n\n                \n\n                    <div class=\"accordion\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-title-Computer-Numerical-Control-(CNC)\">\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion__heading\" aria-controls=\"Computer-Numerical-Control-(CNC)\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n            <div class=\"title\" id=\"accordion-title-Computer-Numerical-Control-(CNC)\">Computer Numerical Control (CNC)<\/div>\n            <div class=\"icon\"><\/div>\n        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30.5 m\/s<\/li>\n<li>Photron High speed camera<\/li>\n<li>Thermo vision A40 thermo heat sensitive cameras<\/li>\n<li>SCADA and PLC Festo equipment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n        \n                            \n                    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n                    <div class=\"accordion\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-title-Vibration-Measurement\">\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion__heading\" aria-controls=\"Vibration-Measurement\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n            <div class=\"title\" id=\"accordion-title-Vibration-Measurement\">Vibration Measurement<\/div>\n            <div class=\"icon\"><\/div>\n        <\/button>\n        <div class=\"accordion__content\" id=\"Vibration-Measurement\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n                    <ul>\n<li>Vibration and noise analysing equipment<\/li>\n<li>Exciters for vibration analysis<\/li>\n<li>Laser measurement<\/li>\n<li>Ultrasonic gauges, Anemometers Fluids<\/li>\n<li>Hydralic bench measurement<\/li>\n<li>Laminar turbulent 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