Acquisition of a 2,500-Kip Testing System for High-Strength Construction Materials

9504119许近年来，在提高建筑材料强度方面取得了快速进展，例如波特兰水泥混凝土、聚合物混凝土和纤维增强塑料/复合材料。对由这种高强度材料制成的试件进行实验测试，需要的载荷远远超过休斯顿大学现有设备的400 kip容量。工程学院目前拥有同样强大的高强度材料研究项目，涉及土木与环境工程和机械工程的几名教职员工和学生。该系统将允许研究人员获得载荷-变形关系，并将具有变形控制能力。它将使研究工作超越现有设备的现有限制，这对于理解大型复合材料结构的安全性和可靠性是重要的。

9504119 Hsu In recent years there have been rapid advances in improving the strengths of construction materials such as Portland cement concrete, polymer concrete, and fiber reinforced plastics/composites. Experimental testing of specimens made from such high strength materials requires loads that significantly exceed the 400-kip capacity of existing equipment now available at the University of Houston. The College of Engineering currently has as strong research programs in high-strength materials involving several faculty members and students from Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. This system will allow researchers to obtain load-deformation relationships, and will have deformation-control capability. It will enable research efforts beyond the current limits of existing equipment, which is important for understanding the safety and reliability of large composite structures.