transparent gif over top logo page background image gives a click target for return-to-top-ofpage link at bottom of pagetransparent gif over top logo page background image gives a click target for home (top) page
page decoration below top logopage decoration below top logo

4 Million Pound Test Machine

The 4,000,000 Pound Southwark-Emery Universal Testing Machine is designed to permit testing in tension, compression, and bending or flexure. In the Southwark-Emery type of hydraulic machine, the load is applied by a variable axial piston pumping unit.

Diagram of major components of the test machine

Documentation of the 4 Million Pound Southwark-Emery Universal Testing Machine (pdf), prepared by Shakhzod M. Takhirov, Dick Parsons, and Don Clyde

Pictures of the Universal Testing Machine, built in 1932 and transported to the Richmond Field Station in 1965

 

This site is supported by the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Program of the National Science Foundation.

Copyright © 2006 the Regents of the University of California.

home   top

nees@berkeley Laboratory • UC Berkeley — Richmond Field Station • 1301 South 46th Street, Building 484 • Richmond, CA 94804 • nees@berkeley.edu