openalexFrontiers in Built Environment2026-07-24
Development and capabilities of the universal panel tester for large-scale testing and constitutive characterization
Yousef Abu Amneh, Abdulrahman Salah, Dimitrios Kalliontzis, Tito Gómez
The Universal Panel Tester (UPT) at the University of Houston is a large-scale facility designed to investigate structural element behavior under multi-axial stress states. Since its establishment in 1988, the UPT has supported pioneering research that advanced shear and torsion…