Rehabilitation of the Ocean and Coastal Engineering Laboratories

得克萨斯工程实验站是学术研究基础设施计划的资金接受者，用于修复得克萨斯A M大学的海洋和海岸工程实验室。 该实验室建于1935年，为环境运输，海洋和海岸工程，流体结构相互作用和流体动力学领域的研究和研究培训提供了机会。 整个设施包括：一个泥泵和管道环测试设施，深玻璃墙波坦克，倾斜水槽，和一个深波盆地。 该实验室的疏浚能力在美国是独一无二的，也是世界上唯一一个由大学拥有和运营的实验室。 现有的设施正在迅速恶化，在20世纪60年代末建造的固定设备已经超出了部门的研究需求。 随着海洋工程项目的研究量稳步增加，从土木工程的其他领域，如环境，水资源，岩土工程和结构，海洋学和化学工程，实验室不能再支持教师和学生的研究活动。 ARI的资金将用于替换和重新安置与NSF资助的海上技术研究中心相邻的海洋和沿海工程专用空间和固定设备。 目前，这些设施相距数英里，教师很难合作和协调研究工作。 该项目将促进协同效应，并确保所有海洋和工程研究，教师，设备和商店设施都位于校园的集中区域。 受益者将包括10名全职教师，50名研究生，120名本科生和相关部门的教师。

The Texas Engineering Experiment Station is the recipient of funds from the Academic Research Infrastructure Program for the rehabilitation of the Ocean and Coastal Engineering Laboratory at Texas A&M University. Constructed in 1935, the laboratory has provided opportunities for research and research training in the areas of environmental transport, ocean and coastal engineering, fluid structure interaction, and fluid dynamics. The entire facility includes: a dredge pump and pipeloop test facility, deep glass wall wave tanks, a titling flume, and a deep wave basin. The dredging capability of the laboratory is unique in the United States and is the only one in the world owned and operated by a university. The existing facility is rapidly deteriorating, and the fixed equipment, constructed in the late 1960s, has outgrown the research needs of the department. With research volume steadily increasing in the Ocean Engineering Program, from other areas in Civil Engineering such as Environmental, Water Resources, Geotechnical and Structures, Oceanography, and Chemical Engineering, the laboratory can no longer support research activities of faculty and students. ARI funds will be used replace and relocate space and fixed equipment dedicated to ocean and coastal engineering adjacent to the NSF funded Offshore Technology Research Center. Currently, the facilities are several miles apart and it is difficult for faculty to collaborate and coordinate research efforts. This project will promote synergy and insure that all of ocean and engineering research, faculty, equipment, and shop facilities are located in a centralized area on campus. Beneficiaries will include 10 full time faculty, 50 graduate students, 120 undergraduates, and faculty members in related departments.