Center for Extreme Load Effects on Structures



Facilities and capabilities


With our home at one of the country's largest research universities, CELES has direct access to top experts and laboratories that are not found in individual companies and laboratories. As a land-grant university, Virginia Tech has a culture of collaboration between disciplines and a long tradition of working with communities to identify and solve unique problems.

Virginia Tech testing and monitoring facilities

Earthquake, vibration & blast

Earthquake Engineering Center for the Southeastern United States

VTSO

Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory

Vibration and Acoustic Laboratories

Structural Dynamics Laboratory

Fire and combustion

Fire and Combustion Laboratories

Wind and water

Virginia Tech Stability Wind Tunnel

Water Tunnel Laboratory and Towing Basin

Fluid mechanics laboratory and wind and water tunnels

Age and stress

Structures and Materials Laboratories

Nondestructive testing

NDE

Nondestructive testing laboratories

Time Domain and RF Measurement Lab

ElectroMagnetic Interactions Laboratory

Visualization, mapping, and high-performance computing

Center for Geotechnical Information Technology

Laboratory for Scientific Visual Analysis

Virginia Tech Terascale Computing Facility (High performance computing)

Relevant facilities and laboratories at Virginia Tech

Testing and monitoring

Earthquake, vibration & blast

Fire and combustion

Wind and water

Age and stress

Nondestructive testing

High-performance computing

Engineering and supportive technology

Community and policy research

Engineering and supportive technology

Virginia Cooperative Center for Bridge Engineering

Center for Wireless Telecommunications

(Wireless communications and networking technology)

Center for Photonics Technology (sensors and optical devices for monitoring and measuring)

CESCA

Center for Embedded Systems for Critical Applications (large-scale, intelligent sensing networks)

Virginia Tech/Wake Forest Center for Injury Biometrics

Community and policy research

Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech

Community Design Assistance Center

Center for Integrated Systems in Housing