Infrastructure

  • Laboratory core drilling machine.
  • Laboratory rock sample cutting machine.
  • Laboratory rock sample grinder.
  • Stiff loading frame by MTS with a capacity of 160 ton or 1600kN in compression.
  • Sphearically seated loading platens.
  • Electronic microconsole for test control (displacement and load control testing).
  • Strain gage and extensometer subsystems.
  • External load cell by Maywood.
  • Integrated system of digital data recording with a 16bit resolution connected to all testing systems for real time data acquisition and processing.
  • Loading frame with a capacity of 50kN in compression by Triscan.
  • Triaxial loading cylinder with a maximum lateral pressure of 14MPa by Wykeham Farrance.

 

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