WELCOME TO THE TREES LAB

Experimentation has always had a fundamental role for scientific research, for validation of models and theories, for structural identification , in the performance definition of systems and components. In the structural and seismic engineering framework, it is recently assuming a key role due to the development of new technologies, both for test execution and data acquisition and processing, allowing the study of structures and materials in conditions very close to the real application.

TREES Lab (Laboratory for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering and Seismology), the EUCENTRE experimental facility, has been specifically designed according to the most innovative technologies and thanks to its high performance equipment allows conducting both dynamic and static experimental research on full-scale prototypes, thus reducing the uncertainties of interpretation and correlation with actual structural conditions.

TREES Lab features four experimental facilities: the Strong Floor-Reaction Wall System for full-scale pseudo-static and pseudo-dynamic tests; the high performance uniaxial Shaking Table; the bi-axial Bearing Tester System for testing of full-scale bearing and isolation devices, with high dynamic and force capabilities; the mobile unit, with the most advanced tools for in situ non-destructive tests and for fast seismic vulnerability analyses keeping a real time contact with the remote control room developed in EUCENTRE according to last generation technologies.

TREES Lab is involved in a number of National and European research and development projects, both in public and private partnership.

EUCENTRE is Official Consultant of the Italian Department of Civil Protection and works in collaboration with the Official Lab of Materials and Structures of the Structural Mechanics Department (University of Pavia, Italy).