Research at FCCIA

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In order to carry out teaching and scientific research activities, the Faculty of Civil, Industrial and Agricultural Buildings has a heritage made up of buildings and land, laboratories with related equipment and a library with books, periodicals and standards.
The scientific research activity of teaching staff takes place mainly within the departments, using their technical equipment: laboratories and local computer networks.

Research Center – Seismic Risk Assessment

Seismic response and fragility/vulnerability of structures
Seismic monitoring and seismic hazard analysis
The seismic response of the land
Seismic risk analysis and dissemination of knowledge and results
Evaluation of the safety of constructions in the event of natural hazards.

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Research Center for Concrete Structures

The research center is a scientific entity integrated into the structure of the Faculty of Civil, Industrial and Agricultural Buildings within the Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest.
CERS members are teaching staff from UTCB, Department of Reinforced Concrete Structures.
The center’s laboratory is equipped with appropriate equipment and installations that allow, in addition to conducting demonstrative test sessions for students, important experimental research.
The laboratory has a wide range of presses and pulsators, with a capacity from a few tf to 350 tf, precompression installations, systems for fixing test elements, suspended and ground transport installations, various measuring and control equipment.
In the laboratory, a diverse range of experimental tests can be approached, from tests to establish the mechanical characteristics of steels and concretes, to tests on models of small and medium-sized reinforced concrete structural elements, under complex stress states.
The main research directions of the center, also supported by the publications of the center members and their research contracts, are the following:

Durability of concrete: the study of the behavior of concrete with various compositions to environmental aggressions and the methods of reducing their effects.
Green concrete: the use of composite cements in making concrete, the use of recycled aggregates.
The behavior of reinforced concrete elements and structures under seismic stress, as well as modern methods of reducing the effects of seismic action on constructions (base isolation, shock absorbers, etc.).

Research Center of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

Laboratory of Metal Constructions

This laboratory is part of the Department of Steel Structures, Management and Engineering Graphics. Here, the members of the Steel Structures Collective, but also other members of the department, of the Faculty of Civil, Industrial and Agricultural Buildings or of the university, carry out their experimental activity.
The hall has a metal structure, making it a very good didactic support for metal construction courses. This has an opening of 18m and four spans of 6m each, which allows to carry out tests on a natural scale.
The main types of experimental tests that can be carried out in this laboratory are:

bending tests on construction elements with a span of up to 27 m, required at forces of max. 1000 kN located at distances of 1.5 m between axles;
compression tests on elements with a maximum length of 5 m, required at forces of up to 1500 kN;
tensile, compression or bending tests on samples or elements with a maximum length of 1m required at statically applied forces of up to 3000 kN.

National Research Center in Seismic and Vibration Engineering

The dynamics of constructions
Seismic engineering
Vibration monitoring and experimental investigation of constructions
Seismic monitoring.