Testing Services
We have a wide range of capabilities for testing concrete at the Materials and Engineering Research Institute. A brief of each test we perform at the university is given below.
You can also find out what we've been able to achieve with our world leading facilities.
Aggregate Testing
- Speedy moisture test
- Sieve shakers
- Sieves
- Riffle Boxes
Fresh Concrete Workability Testing
- Slump test
- Flow table
- Compacting factor
- Vee-Bee Consistometer
- Air Entrainment Meter
Manufacture of Hardened Concrete Test Specimens
- 1.5m x 0.75m vibrating table
- Vibrating poker
- Steel moulds - range of sizes
- Concrete core drilling
- High alumina core capping equipment
- Reinforced steel bar bender
- Diamond blade concrete saw
Structural Testing
- Avery Denison 300kN compression test for cubes, cylinders and prisms
- Large Universal Test Frame (300kN)
ESH Tension & Compression Test Frame (600kN)
Non-Destructive (NDT)
- PUNDIT - pulse velocity measurement
- Schmidt hammer test (Digital & Manual)
- Covermeters: Protovale CM5 & Protovale CM9
- Demec strain gauges - full range
- Vibrating wire strain gauges
- Low voltage digital transducers
- Temperature/humidity probes
- Material Analysis: Mercury Intrusion Porosimetry (MIP)
- Particle Size Analyser
Data Loggers
- Eltek Squirrel 1000 series - ideal for temperature/humidity measurement
- Datataker Geologger DT615 - universal loggers
Who to Contact
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