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Facilities
The PTC is housed with the Civil Infrastructure Testing and Evaluation Laboratories (CITEL) at Penn State University.
Facilities within CITEL include:
- Structural tie-down floor (2500 sq ft)
- MTS 244.41 Servo-Controlled Linear Hydraulic Actuators
- – One 49 kN (11,000 lb) capacity
- – Two 490 kN (110,000 lb) capacity
- – One 980 kN (220,000 lb) capacity
- One Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar
- Impact pendulums
- Full data acquisition systems for static, dynamic, and impact testing
- CITEL computer cluster
- PCs, SUN workstations and server, access to advanced finite element software including LS-Dyna and ABAQUS (Implicit and Explicit)
PTC faculty also utilize many facilities on campus and in their home departments, centers, and institutes to perform research related to Protective Technology. These facilities include:
- Penn State Center for Academic Computing
- Penn State Institute for Computational Science
- CEE Hydraulics and Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
- CEE Kappe Environmental Engineering Laboratories
- Center for Acoustics and Vibration
- Crash Safety Research Facility
- Materials Research Institute
- Thomas D. Larson Pennsylvania Transportation Institute
Structural testing floor
Small-scale indoor pendulum
Fatigue-rated, servo-controlled actuators
Large-scale outdoor pendulum