Corrosion and structural integrity facilities
Concrete
- Concrete mixing facility
- Programmable concrete permeability testing machine
- Mercury intrusion porosimeter (computerised)
- Concrete curing facilities including, standard 20 degrees celsius, low temperature 5 degrees celsius and high temperature curing tanks
- Large temperature and humidity controlled room (standard room)
- Programmable environmental chamber (small) for durability testing (freeze thaw, wet/dry cycles)
- Clean room for specialised testing with full computing facility
- Concrete mist curing room
- Carbolite furnace
- Fresh concrete workability tests (slump, vebe, compaction factor)
- Concrete destructive testing equipment (cube crushing, diamond drill saw, concrete coring)
- Concrete non-destructive testing equipment (covermeter, ferroscan, snake eye, schmidt hammer)
- Selection of ovens (programmable and manual)
Structures
- 300kN, 100kN or 16kN high speed actuators beam test rig with two-plane capability for testing structures or components up to 7.2m long x 3.6m wide x 1.2m high
- Light Engineering Workshop
- 600kN universal test machine with low range load cell
- 2500kN column testing machine up to 4m high
- Large range of Enerpac hand-operated pumps and jacks
Geotechnics
- Permeability cell for testing samples of up to 50mm particle size
- Compaction tests (static and dynamic)
- Large and small Shear box
- Plastic and liquid limits
Bituminous
- Marshall Compactor
- CBR Marshall tester
- Nottingham asphalt tester (NAT)
- Polished stone value (PSV) equipment
Masonry materials
- Computer-controlled climatic simulator
- Computer-controlled BCRA chamber
- Curing chamber
- Wallette flexural testing apparatus
- Cam-operated furnace (1200 degrees celsius)
- Mayes 250 KN tensile/compressive test machine
- Brench tensile test apparatus
- Vacuum chamber
- Mortar preparation and testing facilities
- Nikon stereomicroscope with photographic attachment
- Data acquisition facilities for a variety of sensor types
Other
- Evaluating and testing the comparative thermal performance of reflective and multifoil insulation materials
- Comprehensive instrumentation service and tools including strain gauges, LVDTs, load cells and data loggers
- Modelling workshop
- Comprehensive range of strain gauges etc
- Thermal imaging system