Equipment Available
- 55 and 115 L concrete drum mixers
- Geneq Concrete End Grinder
- end grinding for 75, 100 and 150 mm concrete cylinder
- 100% R.H., 23 C walk-in curing room
- 400 kip Tinius Olson testing machine
- Forced air ovens
- 38, 60 and 80 C for accelerated ASR testing
- Walk-in 38 C oven for ASR testing
- Digital length comparators
- Gilson Test Master 6 Sieve Shaker
- Bench-top sieve shakers
- Temperature sensing equipment with data aquisition
- Pore solution expression device
- pH meter
- Chemical shrinkage testing equipment with image analysis
- Cole Parmer flame photometer
- Struers SEM sample preparation equipment
- grinding and polishing for SEM
- Charpy impact tester
- Other support equipment: Vibco vibrating table, larger curing tanks, high precision balances, weigh below capacity for aggregate density, ultra-pure deionized water system, chloride permeability testing equipment, concrete penetrometer (ACME)
Stay tuned for the addition of the following equipment
- Q-drums for semi-adiabitic calorimetry
- Outdoor exposure site in Corvallis, Oregon
- Marine exposure site, west coast location TBD
Shared Equipment Available at Oregon State
- ICP-OES - CBEE
- FIB SEM - Materials Science in MIME
- ESEM - Materials Science in MIME
- X-ray Diffraction - Materials Science in MIME
- DSC/TGA/DTA - CBEE and MIME
- Machine shop for equipment fabrication, testing and engineering support
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Equipment |
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| Eirich High Intensity Concrete Mixer R09T | Drying Shrinkage Chamber | ScienTemp Freeze-Thaw Machine |
| Sound isolated room for grinding equipment, aggregate preparation, concrete and asphalt saws | 700 Kip Forney compression testing machine | Autogenous testing equipment for pastes and mortar with data acquisition |
| Despatch environmental chamber |