Laboratory Equipment
Some of the most important laboratory equipment in the Concrete and Building Materials Laboratory of the Civil Engineering Department are as follows:
Sample Preparation Tools
Including:
- Hobart mixer (Image No. 1)
- General-purpose mixer (Image No. 2)
- Sulfur melting device for capping cylindrical specimens (Image No. 3)
- Pan-type concrete mixer with fixed blade & rotating materials (Image No. 4)
- Workshop concrete mixer (Image No. 5)
- 5×5×5 cm and 4×4×16 cm molds (Image No. 6)
- 10×10×10 cm mold (Image No. 7)
- 10×20 cm cylindrical mold (Image No. 8)
- 15×30 cm cylindrical mold (Image No. 9)
- Standard concrete slump cone (Image No. 10)
- Special slump cone (Image No. 11)
- Electric concrete vibrator (Image No. 12)
- Capping mold device (Image No. 13)
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Mechanical Testing Equipment
Including:
- Fully automatic ELE concrete compression machine with a capacity of 300 tons (3000 kN) (Image No. 1)
- Automatic ELE concrete compression machine with a capacity of 200 tons (2000 kN) with flexural testing capability (Image No. 2)
- Semi-automatic ELE concrete compression machine with a capacity of 200 kN (Image No. 3)
- Cutting machine for cutting concrete sections (Image No. 4)
- Semi-automatic ELE testing machine (gage type) for reinforcing bar tension and concrete compression (Image No. 5)
- Meter compressor for measuring radial displacement (Image No. 6)
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Material Properties Testing Equipment
Including:
- Autoclave for concrete curing, maximum specimen size 10×10 cm (Image No. 1)
- Sieve shaker, used for grading tests (Image No. 2)
- Los Angeles machine for aggregate crushing (Image No. 3)
- Mortar tensile and flexural testing machine (Image No. 4)
- Mechanical shaker (Image No. 5)
- Shaker for compacting specimens, with adjustable vibration (Image No. 6)
- Concrete air content testing device (Image No. 7)
- Concrete normal water content testing device (Image No. 8)
- Ball mill crusher (Image No. 9)
- Sand splitter (Image No. 10)
- Vicat apparatus for gypsum (1 mm needle) and concrete (1 cm needle) (Image No. 11)
- Sand saturation detection device (Image No. 12)
- Sieves (Image No. 13)
- Water permeability testing device for specimens (Image No. 14)
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Auxiliary and General Equipment
Including:
- Core drilling machine for sampling hardened concrete specimens (Image No. 1)
- Air compressor (Image No. 2)
- Rock crusher for crushing stones into different sizes (Image No. 3)
- Oven with adjustable time and temperature (up to 150°C) (Image No. 4)
- Electric furnace, up to 1100°C (Image No. 5)
- Gas furnace (Image No. 6)
- Electric furnace, up to 1700°C (Image No. 7)
- Welding machine (Image No. 8)
- Heater (Image No. 9)
- Standard Containers (Image No.10)
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Measurement and Control Equipment
Including:
- Digital scale, up to 100 kg (Image No. 1)
- Ultrasonic device for wave velocity measurement (Image No. 2)
- Concrete electrical resistivity measurement device (Image No. 3)
- Data logger (Image No. 4)
- LVDT displacement sensor for measuring displacements in tests (Image No. 5)
- Device for measuring elongation and flakiness of aggregates (Image No. 6)
- Magnetic base for measuring strain on the testing jack (Image No. 7)
- Caliper (Image No. 8)
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