Undergraduate Laboratory for Full-Scale Structural Component Testing

结构工程本科教育缺乏充分的全面测试到结构设计课程的整合。我们调查的所有本科课程都是如此;学生用结构材料进行实验，但不使用结构部件。钢结构、钢筋混凝土结构、砖石结构和木结构的许多现有技术的设计程序都是基于行为的特定方面，这些行为在适当装备的实验室中很容易说明，但学生们从未见过这些行为。 允许学生计划和进行测试，证明结构组件的行为失败将有一个直接的影响，他们的能力，理解测试中所示的具体概念，也对他们的动机，学习相关的概念。我们认为，没有这样做的原因是，没有一所大学有适当的设备专门用于本科课程。 本建议书中描述的设备将用于在高级本科结构设计课程中进行全尺寸结构部件的测试。这些测试将说明影响设计程序的最关键概念。样本将由学生在大二的实验课上制作， 给这些学生一个真实的对象来构建，也提供了几年学习之间的连续性。该设备还将用于施工管理学生评估施工过程。

Undergraduate education in Structural Engineering lacks sufficient integration of full-scale testing into structural design courses. This is true of all undergraduate programs we investigated; students experiment with structural materials, but not with structural components. many state of the art design procedures for structures in steel, reinforced concrete, masonry, and wood are based on specific aspects of behavior that would be simple to illustrate in a properly equipped lab, but which are otherwise never seen by the students. Allowing the students to plan and conduct tests which demonstrate the behavior of structural components to failure will have a direct impact on their ability to understand the specific concepts illustrated in the tests - and also on their motivation to learn related concepts. We believe that the reason this is not done is that no university has appropriate equipment devoted to such use in undergraduate programs. The equipment described in this proposal will be used to conduct tests of full-scale structural components in advanced undergraduate structural design classes. The tests will illustrate the most critical concepts affecting design procedures. Specimens will be constructed by students in a sophomore level lab class, giving these students a real object to construct and also providing continuity between the years of study. The equipment will also be used by Construction Management students to evaluate construction processes.