The concrete test house floor is 8 feet thick and steel reinforced for rigidity, and is rated for shock loads of up to 700,000 pounds. The reinforced concrete test lab floor is more than 30 feet thick, and is rated for shock loads of up to 2,000,000 pounds. We believe that the 1,500,000 pound shaker is the largest single actuator seismic test machine on the planet. In addition to these in-house machines, a time sharing arrangement is maintained for Taylor Devices' use of two heavyweight seismic shaking tables located at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The larger of these is one of the ten largest in the world.
Control is by manual or programmable commands.
Six static test machines are maintained, with capacities up to 100 tons. A cost sharing arrangement is used to share a 250 ton capacity Universal Tester located in Buffalo, New York. Two Cincinnati Sub-Zero environmental chambers are maintained. Taylor Devices' utilizes a Hewlett-Packard computer controlled digital data acquisition system, with 25 channel capability. In addition, three analog data acquisition systems are also maintained.