Technological laboratories
Geotechnical Laboratory for Soils and Rocks
- Cutting and description of undisturbed samples with expeditive tests (pocket, vane test) and photographic imaging, opening and description of reworked samples
- Determination of natural volume weight
- Determination of natural moisture content
- Particle size analysis by screening and sedimentation
- Determination of specific weight of granules
- Liquidity and plasticity limits (Atterberg) and shrinkage limits
- Determination of calcium carbonate content
- Determination of organic matter content
- Consolidated drained shear test CD
- Consolidated drained shear test CD with determination of residual values
- Edometric compressibility test
- Determination of swelling pressure
- Determination of swelling deformation
- Permeability test in oedometer cell
- Free lateral expansion compression test ELL
- Triaxial tests UU – CIU – CID
- Triaxial cell permeability test
- Resonant column test
- Cyclic torsional shear test
- Cyclic triaxial liquefaction test
- Cyclic triaxial test for elastic modulus determination
- Cryogenic triaxial test (on 3 specimens)
- Cryogenic simple compression test
- Cryogenic creep test
- Earth compaction test (Proctor)
- Earth bearing capacity index CBR
- Point Load Test
- Determination of maximum and minimum density
- Determination of elastic modulus with transducers
- On-site tests (Plate tests, Proctor etc.)
Building Materials Laboratory
Concrete
- Curing of specimens in air-conditioned chamber and accelerated hot water curing process
- Study and mix design on an assigned particle size spindle
- Checking of concrete composition
- Determination of water content
- Slump Test
- Vèbè test
- Index of compactness
- Determination of the volume weight
- Air content (pressure method)
- Determination of water content (Bleeding)
- Determination of fibre content
- Determination of the setting time by measuring the resistance to penetration
- Determination of the air content
- Checking the composition
- Hydraulic shrinkage, measured at 1, 2, 3, 7, 14, 28, 60, 90 days of curing
- Determination of chloride content
- Determination of the mechanical resistance
- Determination of the compressive strength of the concrete with dimensional and weight measurement
- Calculation of the modulus of elasticity from the stress-strain curve
- Determination of the flexural strength
- Flexural strength on prisms
- Indirect tensile strength (Brazilian)
- Resistance to frost and thaw degradation
Steels
- Tensile test on plain and adherence improved rounds and on tubes from profiles and sheets
- Determination of modulus of elasticity
- Bend test at 90° and subsequent straightening at 20°.
- Resilience test
- Tensile strength test on a full screw
- Load test on screw
- Load test on nut
Bitumen
- Sampling of bituminous binders
- Needle penetration determination
- Determination of softening point
- Determination of breaking point according to the Fraass method
- Particle size analysis by sieving
- Determination of the density of granules and water absorption
- Determination of the density in piles of bituminous specimens
- Determination of void characteristics of bituminous test specimens
- Determining stability and Marshall creep
- Determining the thickness of a bituminous pavement