Technical Equipment

Technical Equipment

Workshops for:

  • Modelling, synthetic materials, Perspex, wood, metal, and electronics

Flumes and wave channels:

  • Tilting flume with sediment recirculation (30 m long, 2 m wide, 1 m high)
  • Armfield flumes (20 m long, 0.9 m wide, 0.6 m high and 30 m long, 0.6 m wide, 0.6 m high, respectively)
  • Steep flume (9.85 m long, 0.96 m wide, 0.44 m high, slope range 1:3 to 1:5)
  • Further hydraulic flumes (5-20 m long, 0.3-0.6 m wide, 0.3 - 0.6 m high)
  • 2 parallel wave channels (90 m long, 2 m and 1 m wide, respectively, 1.20 m high, max. wave height 0.3 m, period 4.5 s)
  • Small wave channel (20 m long, 0.3 m wide, 0.38/0.53 m high, max. wave height 0.1 m, period 0.75 s)
  • 3D-wave basin (20.8 m long, 18.8 m wide, 1.0 m high)
  • Drop-test facility
  • Oscillatory flow facility (located at the BAW)

Pumps (10 m head):

  • 3 x 550 l/s, 300 l/s, 100 l/s und 50 l/s

Selected measurement instruments:

  • 3D-Laser Doppler Anemometer (3D-LDA)
  • 3D-Vectrino+
  • 3D- and 2D Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter (ADV)
  • Current meters for lab and field
  • Ultrasonic sensors
  • Inductive discharge measurement devices (IDM)
  • Drag force sensors
  • Wave machine
  • Wave gauges
  • Laser-displacement meter
  • Large sieve machine
  • Large triaxial cell (D=475 mm, H=980 mm)

If you are interested in using our facility or if you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact Till Branß.