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APPLIED MECHANICS

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walls and double doors. It is arranged for such experiments as require a low, uniform temperature. The department shares a workship with the department of electrical engineering (see p. 8$). This gives the department facilities for preparing special apparatus of use in advanced and original investigations. In addition to the preceding, there are a number of private studies and laboratories for the use of advanced students and instructors. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS The courses in theoretical and applied mechanics are designed to meet the needs of students of the College of Engineering.

EQUIPMENT

The laboratory of applied mechanics is located in the Wood Shops and Testing1 Laboratory. It comprises the materials laboratory and the hydraulic laboratory. The materials laboratory has an Olsen testing machine of 200,000 pounds' capacity, arranged to test beams twenty feet long; a Riehle testing machine of 100,000 pounds' capacity; apparatus for testing beams; Keep's dead-load and impact machines for cast iron; a Riehle wire-testing machine, extensometers and deflectometers, a stone-grinding machine, four rattlers for abrasion tests of stone and brick, with other apparatus for making all necessary measurements and observations, etc. The laboratory is fitted up as a working laboratory, where students may acquire such practice in experimental work as engineers are called upon to perform, as well as for the purpose of illustrating principles, and also for use in original investigation. The hydraulic laboratory contains a steel standpipe connected with city water supply and having several openings, a steam pump, centrifugal pump, tanks, pits, scales, pressure gauges, hook gauges, meters, including a Venturi meter, water motor and other apparatus for experiments with orifices, tubes, weirs, pipes, hose, and nozzles. Experiments are made in connection with the regular class instruction.