Commercial Testing Services

• Structural testing to AS 1170
• Full-scale load testing and monitoring for buildings, bridges and retaining structures
• Full-scale airbag and hydraulic-ram structural testing
• Strong floor, reaction blocks and Instron servo-controlled actuators for full-scale prototype testing
• Masonry and concrete Schmidt hammer surveys and materials testing

• Cracking and corrosion
• Full-field strain measurement by digital image correlation
• NATA-calibrated load testing machines with load ranges between 1 kN and 5000 kN
• Compression, shear, flexural and tension testing
• Concrete testing to AS 1012
• Masonry testing to AS 4456
• Dynamic, cyclic, creep and fatigue testing
• Machine component integrity and durability
• Microscopy and metallurgy
• Weld-failure investigations

• Earthquake simulations by mechanical plant shake-table testing
• Fixed and portable shakers for shock and vibration testing
• High-velocity linear actuators for impact testing
• Uniaxial shake-table testing for equipment weighing up to 2 T, with dimensions up to 2 m3
• Six-degrees-of-freedom ‘Hexapod’ for kinematic and multi-directional load testing
• Hi-speed ram driven by linear servo motor
• Fixed and portable shakers
• Testing to AC 156 and AS 60068.3.3

• Long-term geotechnical and structural monitoring
• Train ride-quality testing to AS 7509 to assess safety, stability and driver or passenger comfort
• Structural instrumentation, monitoring and data analysis
• Electrical continuity testing
• Train ride-quality indexing for locomotives and wagons to AS 7509
• Control and data acquisition system design

• Geotechnical testing to AS 1289
• Triaxial, direct shear and oedometer testing
• Total and matric suction
• SWCC
• Hydraulic conductivity
• Field testing, including seismic DMT and SASW
• Retaining structure inclinometer measurement
• Rock in situ stress measurement by acoustic emissions and deformation rate analysis
• Structural forensic investigation, subject to foundation movements

• South Australia’s only industrial-scale wind tunnel 
• Anechoic wind tunnel provides a low-turbulence-intensity flow into our anechoic chamber
• KC wind tunnel provides a low-speed open return tunnel with a modular design and multiple contraction and test sections

We offer a comprehensive range of services including testing to Australian, ISO, ASTM and MIL standards:

• Airborne sound insulation testing in reverberation rooms (random incidence sound transmission loss) to AS 1191/ ISO 140 / ISO 10140
• Normal incidence transmission loss testing (in an impedance tube) to ASTM E2611
• Random incidence sound absorption testing (in a reverberation room) to AS ISO 354
• Normal incidence sound absorption testing (in an impedance tube) to ASTM E1050 and ISO 10534-2
• Static airflow resistance testing for porous materials to ASTM C522-03 and ISO 9053
• Porosity and Density measurements of porous media (based on ISO 4590)
• Sound power testing in a laboratory reverberation room (both direct and comparison methods) to ISO 3741
• Sound power testing using sound pressure in anechoic and hemi-anechoic rooms to ISO 3745
• Sound power testing using sound intensity to ISO 9614
• Environmental laboratory testing to MIL-STD-810
• Hydrodynamic valve noise measurement based on IEC_60534-8-2
• Measurement of speed of sound in a fluid in a pipe to ISO_15086-2
• Vibration testing with an LDS 721shaker, using sinusoid, random vibration, and classical shock excitations against criteria such as NASA-STD-7001B
• Noise monitoring and control.
• Bespoke sound and vibration measurements and analysis to suit your needs.

Acoustics and Vibration Laboratory flyer

• Pipe condition assessment by water hammer analysis
• Capture-efficiency analysis and reporting for storm water filtration devices
• Flume and weir testing

• Test procedures and equipment design to meet client requirements
• In-house fabrication and instrumentation workshops