Consulting Services

The Centre for Infrastructure Engineering (CIE), located at the Kingswood campus of Western Sydney University, is your destination for world-class infrastructure engineering services. For over a decade, we've been dedicated to meeting the diverse needs of engineering clients with our specialised expertise and consultancy services.

Here are some of the consulting services we provide to our industry partners:

• Structural Engineering Tests: We specialise in providing professional structural testing services for a wide range of specimens, including beams, columns, slabs, joints, connections, and sleepers, both small and large-scale. Our tests encompass compressive tests, four-point and three-point bending tests, tensile tests, torsion tests, and more, covering loads from monotonic to cyclic loads in various directions.

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• Material Engineering Tests: We provide services in casting facilities, conducting tests on composite and other materials to assess properties such as Tensile and Compressive Strength, Modulus of Elasticity (MoE), Modulus of Rupture (MoR), Poisson’s ratio, and fatigue. We can also conduct tensile coupon tests at elevated temperatures of up to 1200 degrees C.
• Fire Engineering Tests: We offer fire testing services for assessing the compressive and tensile strength of small and large-scale specimens at elevated temperatures, as well as tests of thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity.

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• Hydraulic Engineering Tests: We provide testing services to assess scouring on pipe, channel, and bridge pier models using our state-of-the-art Hydraulic Flume, 14m long, 1m wide and 750mm deep. The angle of the Flume bed can also vary to suit different applications.

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• Health Monitoring and Structural Assessment Tests: We offer structural inspections, condition assessments, structural analysis (including advanced Finite Element analysis), and health monitoring services utilizing state-of-the-art facilities. Our facilities include drone-based photogrammetry and terrestrial laser scanning for data collection.
• Environments Engineering Tests: We offer a range of testing services, including durability tests, accelerated corrosion tests, humidity tests, UV resistance tests, freeze-thaw tests, water ingress tests, and more.

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All tests are conducted according to Australian standards and/or can comply with different international standards upon request, ensuring unparalleled quality while maintaining competitive pricing. Standard testing includes a pictorial certified test report/certificate as proof of testing for product development. For clients seeking deeper insights, advanced Finite Element Modelling (FEM) and thorough analysis are available upon request.

All our jigs, actuators, accelerometers, and other sensors are regularly calibrated for accuracy and reliability.

If you require more information about our services or wish to discuss your test requirements, please contact:

Professor Bijan Samali

Senior Professor of Structural Engineering
Commercial services

Phone: +61 2 4736 0263
Mobile: +61 419 223 695
Email: B.Samali@westernsydney.edu.au