Facilities
The Manly Hydraulics Laboratory was established in 1944 to provide specialist services in the area of water, coastal and environmental solutions.
Working Space
- Covered experimental space - 2230 sq m
- Open air experimental space - 3530 sq m
Major Hydraulic Facilities
- 30m x 1.0m x 1.8m Wave flume with adjustable floor and random wave generator
- 11m x 0.6m x 0.8m Tilting flume with glass panels
- 30m x 20m x 1m Wave basin with random multidirectional wave generator
- NATA accredited urban water meter testing rig
- NATA accredited open channel and closed conduit non-urban water meter pattern approval test rig
- Re-circulated flow rig with flows up to 1500 l/s and 60m head
- Linay and Hydraulic Structures
- Water quality laboratory
- Wave rider buoy callibration rig
Other Site Facilities
- Computer centre with remote sensing, GIS and database capabilities
- Electronics workshop for the testing, construction and repair of hydrodynamic instrumentation
- Mechanical workshop for the construction of experimental facilities
- Clean water flows up 1.13cu m/s from Manly Dam (a 9,000,000 cu m reservoir)
- Laboratory instrumentation for measuring most hydraulic parameters
- Field instrumentation to measure hydrodynamic and ocean processes
Flow Testing |
Flow Testing |
Urban Water Meter Test Rig |
2D Wave Flume |
Physical Models |
Physical Models |
Damage Profile Wave Model |
Digital Elevation Numerical Model |
Catchment Monitoring |
Catchment Monitoring |
Wave Basin |
Wave Basin |
Dam Spillway Model |
Flow Monitoring |
Water Quality Monitoring |
Water Quality Monitoring |
