Table 1: The development of super structural testing machines in Japan.

No. Type Setting or Manufacturing Unit Loading Capacity Stroke Cylinder
1 Vertical Takenaka Corporation 10,000 kN 1000 mm 1
2 Japan Building Research Institute 10,000 kN 1000 mm 1
3 Kawasaki Steel Corporation 10,000 kN 1000 mm 1
4 Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo 20,000 kN 1000 mm 1
5 National Research Laboratory of Metrology 20,000 kN 1
6 College of Science and Technology, Nihon University 30,000 kN 1000 mm 5
7 PWRI of Ministry of Construction 30,000 kN 1200 mm 5
8 Horizontal Shimadzu Corporation 12,000 kN 1000 mm 4
9 Shimadzu Corporation 17,000 kN 2000 mm 4
10 Osaka University 20,000 kN 300 mm 2
11 Tokyo Test Machine Manufacturing 24,000 kN 4
12 Hitachi Research Institute 28,000 kN 400 mm 4
13 MITI Ship Research Institute 30,000 kN 200 mm 1
14 Nippon Steel Yawata 30,000 kN 300 mm 4
15 Kobe Steel 30,000 kN 500 mm 4
16 MITI Ship Research Institute 40,000 kN 200 mm
17 Nippon Kokan (NKK) 50,000 kN 300 mm
18 Nippon Steel 80,000 kN 600 mm 4
19 Kawasaki Steel Corporation 80,000 kN 700 mm 4
20 Sumitomo Industrial Technology Research Center 100,000 kN 600 mm 4