The Islamia University of Bahawalpur

Faculty of Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Report On:
Wreak Breakdown Structure of a Project
Group Name
Name Roll No
Ahsan Maqbool F21BCIEN1MO1O22
Ahsan Shafi F21BCIEN1MO1O21
Asad Mehmood F21BCIEN1MO1O37
Hammad Shabbir F21BCIEN1MO1O28
Submitted By:
Ahsan Maqbool
Submitted To:
Engr. Bilal Akram
INTRODUCTION
The Structural Engineering Laboratory is a large space incorporating all
the facility needed for advanced research and teaching purposes. Boasting the largest strong floor
in Australia at 1.5 meters thick and a wide range of facility for testing and analysis from nano-
scale to large scale applications under various loading conditions including but not limited to high
temperatures, impact, fatigue, cyclic loading and much more. The Structural Engineering
Laboratory facilitates productive innovation and learning. The newly renovated teaching lab
provides students with a state-of-the art practical learning space with the essential facility needed
to introduce them to the fundamentals of structural engineering.
Structural Materials Laboratory contributes mainly teaching activities and Design Project (DP)
activities in the Civil Engineering Department. It provides support in a wide range of specialized
areas of structural materials analysis and testing to the students.
This includes: Consistency, Initial and Final Setting time of cement, Measurement of Workability
of Concrete (Slump Test), Compressive Strength of Cement cubes, Fineness of Cement (Using
Autoclave), Determination of Water Permeability of Concrete Cubes and Concrete mix design.
The Structures Laboratory has the capability to perform a broad range of tests to characterize the
performance of bridge structures and structural systems. This capability resides in five individual
facilities: the main Structures Laboratory, the annex structures laboratory facility, the outdoor
testing facilities, the computer modeling and simulation facility, and the material testing facility.
LABORATORY PURPOSE
There are approximately 618,000 bridges in the United States,
including bridges on the National Highway System and bridges maintained and operated by
various State and local entities. These bridges are essential to our Nation's mobility. The Structures
Laboratory is a unique facility at Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA’s) Turner-Fairbank
Highway Research Center that specializes in developing and testing bridge designs, materials, and
construction processes that promise safer and more efficient structures in the Nation's highway
system.
The purpose of the Structures Laboratory is to support FHWA's strategic focus on improving
mobility through analytical and experimental studies to determine the behavior of bridge systems
under typical and extreme loading conditions. These experimental studies may also include tests
of bridge systems developed to enhance bridge durability and constructability over time. Data from
these studies help upgrade national bridge design specifications and improve the safety, reliability,
and cost effectiveness of bridge construction in the United States.
The Structures Laboratory also provides bridge failure forensic investigation services to State
departments of transportation, FHWA divisions, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB),
and other organizations. Through this forensic service, the laboratory determines the causes of
bridge structural failures and develops practices and procedures to help avoid similar failures from
occurring in the future.
LABORATORY SERVICES
The Structures Laboratory provides the following services:
• Fundamental research into the strength, fatigue resistance, serviceability, and safety of
bridges, bridge components, and other highway structures.
• Applied research to assess the suitability of various structural components and systems for
different services.
• Field evaluation of in-service structures.
• Forensic evaluation of structural failures.
• Systems integration at superstructure and substructure interfaces.
LABORATORY EQUIPMENT
The Structures Laboratory and facilities contain the following
equipment.
• Numerous static and dynamic load actuators of 10,000 to 2 million pound force (44- to
8,896-kilonewton-) capacity.
• State of the art data acquisition with the capability to perform very large structural
experiments.
• Numerous instruments to measure load, displacement, rotation, and strain in structures.
 • Servo hydraulic Load Frames:
One uniaxial load frame with an axial load capacity of 22 kips in compression and 22 kips in
tension.
One uniaxial load frame with an axial load capacity of 1,000 kips in compression and 509 kips in
tension.
One uniaxial load frame (figure 2) with an axial load capacity of 550 kips in compression and 550
kips in tension.
Two reconfigurable load frames (figure 3), each with axial load capacity of 1,000 kips for static
test and 550 kips for dynamic tests.
One uniaxial load frame with an axial load capacity of 220 kips and 220 kips in tension.
One uniaxial load frame (figure 4) with an axial load capacity of 110 kips in compression and 110
kips in tension.
• One electromechanical load frame with an axial load capacity of 22 kips in tension and
compression.
• A Charpy V-notch tester and two hardness testers.
• Microscopes and metallurgical testing equipment.
• Video extensometer systems.
• Three-dimensional laser measurement system with a volumetric accuracy up to 0.002
inches (0.049 millimeters) with a diameter range up to 361 feet (100 meters).
• Cementitious composite mixing, casting, and curing equipment.
• Software licenses to perform advanced, nonlinear finite element modeling of structural
behavior.