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Spring/Summer 2017

Adrianne Kroll, right, with Industry Expansion Solutions works on an improvement project with employees at Sirchie's plant in Youngsville, NC.

Apr 6, 2017

Lending a helping hand

When Kyle Martin needed help with a redesign of the office space in the manufacturing plant he oversees, he knew where to turn. 

Inside the Constructed Facilities Laboratory (CFL)

Apr 6, 2017

In our labs

It’s the job of researchers in the CFL to break things. And they enjoy it. The facility on NC State’s Centennial Campus enables research, development and testing of construction materials and structural systems at full scale. Whether it’s a bridge beam, a parking deck column or a concrete wall, the facility’s 4,500-square-foot structural testing floor can probably handle it. If not, Dr. Sami Rizkalla, CFL director and Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering, has set aside space behind the facility to test outdoors. 

Apr 6, 2017

A lab for loads

Testing the effect of loading on large structures has long been a part of the teaching curriculum and research program in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering (CCEE). 

Apr 6, 2017

Faculty Highlights

The Spring/Summer 2017 NC State Engineering magazine highlights recent faculty achievements. 

Apr 6, 2017

College lands new National Science Foundation centers

The College’s faculty continues to be very successful in landing prominent roles in National Science Foundation (NSF) centers. Several new awards have been announced in the last few months. 

Dr. Afsaneh Rabiei in the lab

Apr 6, 2017

Microscope uses heat and loading to offer new insights into creep fatigue

Since joining the NC State faculty in 2000, Dr. Afsaneh Rabiei has spent years assembling two labs’ worth of equipment that enables her research in the manufacturing and characterization of advanced materials, metal foams, coatings, thin films and composites.