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Visit individual faculty profiles to find links to research group websites. </p> <p><a href="/directory/faculty/faculty-area" class="button orange">Faculty Directory </a></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="tile w110 white-box " id="tile16449" data-tileid="16449" > <div class="wrapper fingerprint py-5"> <div class="lower maxwidth1140 " id="lower16449"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-12"></div> <div class="col-md column1 px-md-2 py-2 mx-md-2 " > <p style="text-align: center;"><img src="/_sitemanager/viewphoto.aspx?id=52118&s=900" alt="" class="image" data-fancy-caption="<p>Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory</p>" width="900" loading="lazy" /></p> <p><span class="fs125x"><strong>Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: left;">The Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory (VTCHL) is an 11,000 square foot lab in the CEE Building that supports research and teaching on river meandering, coastal erosion, oceanic turbidity currents, sedimentation engineering, environmental fluid mechanics and hydraulic structures. Laboratory capabilities include physical and numerical modeling, computational fluid dynamics and field research.  </p> <div class="accordion"> <p><a class="collapsed" role="button" href="#option_16449_VTCHL" data-toggle="collapse" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="option_16449_VTCHL">Learn More about VTCHL</a></p> <div id="option_16449_VTCHL" class="collapse"> <p>Features include:</p> <ul> <li>Flumes for teaching open-channel hydraulics, sediment transport and hydraulic structures</li> <li>Tanks and flumes to research density driven flows and their sediment deposits</li> <li>Large oscillating water and sediment tunnel for waves and currents</li> <li>Kinoshita meandering flume for erosion, sedimentation and morphology</li> <li>Particle image velocimetry systems and 3D acoustic velocimetry systems</li> <li>Sedimentation lab with particle size analyzer and annular flume for erosion studies</li> <li>Continental Margins Tank and Cavitation Tunnel Twin weighing tanks for calibration of flow metering sensors</li> <li>Water supply system with 50,000 gal. capacity sump and variable speed pumps</li> </ul> <p>Lab Director: <a href="/directory/profile/mhgarcia">Marcelo H. Garcia</a><br />More information: <a href="https://vtchl.illinois.edu/">vtchl.illinois.edu</a></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-md column2 px-md-2 py-2 mx-md-2 " > <p style="text-align: center;"><img src="/_sitemanager/viewphoto.aspx?id=52120&s=900" alt="" class="image" data-fancy-caption="" width="900" loading="lazy" /></p> <p><span class="fs125x"><strong>Newmark Structural Engineering Laboratory</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: left;">The Newmark Structural Engineering Lab (NSEL) has a long history of excellence in material and large-scale experimental structural research. Completed in 1967 and extended in 1971,  the testing section of the lab is located in the Newmark Lab crane bay and has a three-story clear height. Researchers carry out a wide range of tests of building materials, components, structural assembles and models.</p> <div class="accordion"> <p><a class="collapsed" role="button" href="#option_16449_NSEL" data-toggle="collapse" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="option_16449_NSEL">Learn More about NSEL</a></p> <div id="option_16449_NSEL" class="collapse"> <p>Features include:</p> <ul> <li>Large Testing Floor supported by 16.4 ft. deep concrete box girder design, used for tests of full-scale bridge girders, dynamic experiments and more</li> <li>New cranes with 20 ton and 40 ton capacities, with a clear height of 29.5 ft</li> <li>Reaction Wall consisting of a 5 ft. thick and 28.5 ft. high L-shaped structure, post-tensioned to a 2 ft. thick Testing Floor</li> <li>Manually-controlled and Servo-controlled hydraulic equipment with a wide range of hydraulic actuator capacities</li> <li>Fatigue-rated testing frames</li> <li>Instrumentation to support any type of transducer</li> <li>Wide range of hardware (columns, I-beams, channels and more) that allow for full-scale tests of structures</li> <li>Houses three large-scale 6-degrees of freedom quasi-static and dynamic</li> <li>Loading Boundary Condition Boxes</li> </ul> <p>Interim Lab Director: <a href="/directory/profile/olsons">Scott Olson</a><br />More information: <a href="https://launchnsel.web.illinois.edu/">launchnsel.web.illinois.edu</a></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-12"></div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="tile w110 white-box " id="tile16450" data-tileid="16450" > <div class="wrapper fingerprint py-5"> <div class="lower maxwidth1140 " id="lower16450"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-12"></div> <div class="col-md column1 px-md-2 py-2 mx-md-2 " > <p style="text-align: center;"><img src="/_sitemanager/viewphoto.aspx?id=52875&s=900" alt="" class="image" data-fancy-caption="" width="900" loading="lazy" /></p> <p><span class="fs125x"><strong>Environmental Engineering and Science Laboratories</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: left;">The Environmental Engineering and Science (EE&S) laboratories are located on the fourth floor of Newmark Lab and in the new CEE building across the street. The several EE&S labs host shared facilities with a wide range of state-of-the-science analytical equipment, including mass spectroscopy; optical, surface area and organic carbon analyzers; and inductively coupled plasma, ion, liquid and gas chromatography.</p> <div class="accordion"> <p><a class="collapsed" role="button" href="#option_16450_EES" data-toggle="collapse" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="option_16450_EES">Learn More about EE&S Labs</a></p> <div id="option_16450_EES" class="collapse"> <p>Together, the labs are fully equipped for a diverse range of research, including:</p> <ul> <li>Water disinfection</li> <li>Water and wastewater quality</li> <li>Water chemistry</li> <li>Aerosols and air quality</li> <li>Pathogens</li> <li>Environmental microbiology and genomics</li> <li>Nano-enabled and interfacial processes</li> <li>Environmental synthetic and molecular biology</li> <li>Environmental toxicity</li> <li>Hazardous waste remediation</li> <li>Resource recovery</li> <li>Data science</li> <li>Green roof</li> </ul> <p>Lab Director: <a href="/directory/profile/vverma">Vishal Verma</a><br />Lab Manager: Shaoying “Shawn” Qi</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-md column2 px-md-2 py-2 mx-md-2 " > <p style="text-align: center;"><img src="/_sitemanager/viewphoto.aspx?id=52121&s=900" alt="" class="image" data-fancy-caption="" width="900" loading="lazy" /></p> <p><span class="fs125x"><strong>Advanced Transportation Research and Engineering Lab</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: left;">The 60,000 square-foot Advanced Transportation Research and Engineering Laboratory (ATREL) is a unique and comprehensive transportation research, educational and testing laboratory located 15 miles from campus at CEE’s Illinois Center for Transportation in Rantoul, Ill. ATREL provides high-quality transportation education and research that advances technologies for airport, highway and rail systems.   </p> <div class="accordion"> <p><a class="collapsed" role="button" href="#option_16450_ATREL" data-toggle="collapse" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="option_16450_ATREL">Learn More about ATREL</a></p> <div id="option_16450_ATREL" class="collapse"> <p>Features include:</p> <ul> <li>continuing education classrooms</li> <li>office space</li> <li>technical library</li> <li>computer facility</li> </ul> <p>ATREL is also home to the Accelerated Transportation Loading System (ATLAS), which evaluates full-scale transportation systems by subjecting them to real-life traffic and environmental conditions. ATLAS is capable of simulating aircraft, truck or rail traffic distributions, testing all types of pavement systems and applying load levels exceeding highway and airfield limits.</p> <p>Lab Director: <a href="/directory/profile/alqadi">Imad Al-Qadi</a><br />More information: <a href="https://ict.illinois.edu/about/facilities">ict.illinois.edu/about/facilities</a></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-12"></div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="tile w100 navy-box minheight400" id="tile19436" data-tileid="19436" style="background-image: url(/_sitemanager/viewphoto.aspx?id=57822&s=0);" data-fancy-caption=""> <div class="wrapper darkify py-2"> <div class="lower text-center maxwidth800 " id="lower19436"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md column1 py-6 " > <h2 style="text-align: center;">Kavita and Lalit Bahl Smart Bridge</h2> <p style="text-align: center;"><span class="fs125x">A gift of friends of the department for which it is named, this instrumented bridge connecting the CEE Building with Newmark Lab/Yeh Center serves as a living laboratory, providing a wealth of data for use in classes and research. </span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a class="button" href="/research/research-facilities/smart-bridge">EXPLORE</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="tile w110 white-box " id="tile16472" data-tileid="16472" > <div class="wrapper fingerprint py-5"> <div class="lower maxwidth1140 " id="lower16472"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-12"></div> <div class="col-md column1 px-md-2 py-2 mx-md-2 " > <p style="text-align: center;"><img src="/_sitemanager/viewphoto.aspx?id=52881&s=900" alt="" class="image" data-fancy-caption="" width="900" loading="lazy" /></p> <p><span class="fs125x"><strong>Research and Innovation Laboratory</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: left;">The Research and Innovation Laboratory (RAIL) provides researchers with the tools to advance railway infrastructure track component and system design and performance. RAIL houses multiple frames that allow for the execution of experiments on railway infrastructure and mechanical components. The 3,500 square foot space is located in Champaign, Ill., on the grounds of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Laboratory.</p> <div class="accordion"> <p><a class="collapsed" role="button" href="#option_16472_RAIL" data-toggle="collapse" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="option_16472_RAIL">Learn More about RAIL</a></p> <div id="option_16472_RAIL" class="collapse"> <p>Features include:</p> <ul> <li>Track Loading System for system-level experimentation on track panels supported by full-depth track substructure</li> <li>Pulsating Load Testing Machine for static and cyclic experimentation and testing on railway fastening systems</li> <li>Static Tie Tester, Static Load Testing Machine, and Large-<br />Scale Test Frame for static and cyclic experimentation and testing of crossties, fastening systems, joint bars and more</li> <li>Multiple MTS hydraulic actuators (35 to 110 kip)</li> <li>Five hydraulic cylinders (100 kip)</li> </ul> <p>Lab Director: <a href="/directory/profile/jedward2">J. Riley Edwards</a><br />Lab Manager: <a href="https://railtec.illinois.edu/member/marcus-dersch/">Marcus S. Dersch</a><br />More information: <a href="https://railtec.illinois.edu/laboratories/rail/">railtec.illinois.edu/laboratories/rail</a></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-md column2 px-md-2 py-2 mx-md-2 " > <p style="text-align: center;"><img src="/_sitemanager/viewphoto.aspx?id=52879&s=900" alt="" class="image" data-fancy-caption="" width="900" loading="lazy" /></p> <p><span class="fs125x"><strong>John T. Pfeffer Sanitation and Resource Recovery Lab</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: left;">The John T. Pfeffer Sanitation and Resource Recovery (SR2) Laboratory will provide space to conduct experiments that will advance fundamental understanding of pathogen inactivation and contaminant transformation in concentrated human excreta, as well as develop and pilot anaerobic, phototrophic and physical/chemical treatment and resource recovery technologies using mixed and source-separated human waste streams.</p> <div class="accordion"> <p><a class="collapsed" role="button" href="#option_16472_SR2" data-toggle="collapse" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="option_16472_SR2">Learn More about SR2</a></p> <div id="option_16472_SR2" class="collapse"> <p>Features:</p> <ul> <li>Floor mounted “no-mix” toilet (urine and solids separation) and waterless urinal in connected restrooms</li> <li>Urine recovery container and containment system (solids connect to building’s sanitary system)</li> <li>Diversion of urine for research on source-separated waste streams and nutrient recovery</li> </ul> <p>Lab Director: <a href="/directory/profile/rcusick">R. 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