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An experimental apparatus to allow students to investigate the important features of a two-pinned arch and to illustrate the use of arches where the footings are hard especially in the horizontal direction.

An experimental apparatus to allow students to investigate the important features of a fixed-arch and to illustrate how a structure applies loading to its surroundings when the footings are very hard in all directions.

An experimental apparatus to allow students to investigate the deflection and stability of struts (slender columns).

An experimental apparatus to allow students to investigate the properties of statically indeterminate and continuous beams.

An experimental apparatus to allow students to investigate the relationships between load horizontal deflection, vertical deflection and stability in commonly used curved structures and davits and to compare the results with theoretical values.

An experimental apparatus to allow students to investigate the practical plastic bending of beams.

An experimental apparatus to provide students with extended investigations into realistic structures including determining the points of failure of a loaded portal frame and also identifying the modes of failure.

An experimental apparatus to allow students to investigate the principles of redundancy and aspects of safety critical structures using determinate and indeterminate framed structures.

An experimental apparatus to allow students to investigate the reactions and deflections of a loaded rectangular portal.

An experimental apparatus to allow students to investigate a simple suspension bridge structure, and measure the cable tension under various loads.

A simply supported beam apparatus to demonstrate and investigate the bending moments and forces within a structure.

Allows students to investigate the sway, strains, stresses and therefore bending moments of a horizontally and vertically loaded rectangular portal.

A simply supported beam apparatus to demonstrate and investigate the shear forces within a structure by use of a loaded beam designed to move in shear only.

An experimental apparatus to allow students to investigate deflection and stability of beam and cantilever structures.

An experimental apparatus to allow students to investigate the stresses and strains within a structure in relation to bending loads.

An experimental apparatus to allow students to investigate the relationship between torque and deflection in the elastic region of solid sections in various materials and a single tubular section.

An experimental apparatus to allow students to investigate deflection and stability within a structure in relation to beams with unsymmetrical sections.

An experimental apparatus to allow students to create a wide selection of pin-jointed frameworks and then investigate the effects resulting from applying loading forces to them.

An experimental apparatus to allow students to investigate the important features of a three-pinned arch.