Laboratories

The School possesses 16 laboratories catering for all teaching and research activities. There is an excellent support workshop capable of handling all the requirements of the School. A student workshop has been expanded recently to cater for the needs of the final year student project work on a self-help basis.

Major Items of Equipment include:

Acoustics & Vibration

• anechoic chamber(3.5 m x 3.5 m x 3.5 m)

• Motor testing

 

• sound intensity measuring system 
• modal testing system

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Fluids and Environmental

• Flight laboratory

• Cessna 182RG aircraft VH-CKA

• supersonic wind tunnel (155 mm x 90 mm; Mach 2) 
• subsonic wind tunnel (460 mm x 460 mm; max velocity 45 m/s) 
• water tunnel (150 mm x 300 mm) 
• free piston shock tunnel (T3 - located at ANU) 
• hot wire anemometer 
• laser dual focus velocimeter 
• Macchi jet trainer 

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• Avon gas turbine engine

• compressor plant 
• steam plant 
• eddy current dynamometer 
• two water flumes
• wave flume
• fluids teaching work benches
• soil contamination facilities

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Materials & Non-destructive Testing

• lasers (He-Ne, Argon-Ion and pulsed Ruby) 
• load-cycling universal testing machine 
• numerically-controlled milling machine 
• Singleton Model SCCH#22 corrosion chamber 
• Instron 8033 dynamic testing machine 

Instron Testing Machine

• Instron 1342 testing machine 
• autoclaves for composite manufacturing 
• environmental chamber