Concrete Testing Services
Concrete Testing Services
Concrete Testing Services
The Research and Education in Advanced Transportation Engineering Systems (CREATES) has a widerange of capabilities for testing concrete/mortar. A brief of each test we perform is given below.
Aggregate Testing
- Moisture Analyser
- Sieve shakers
- Sieves
- Oven to dry fine/coarse aggregates
- Specific gravity
- Materials Finer than 75 micro
- Abrasion test
Fresh concrete properties
- Mortar mixer
- Concrete mixtures with a range of sizes up to 8 (ft) 3
- Slump test
- Flow table
- Air content (pressure and volume)
- Temperature
- Sampling
- Vibrating table/Poker
- Calorimeter
Manufacture of hardened Concrete Test Specimens with mechanical and durability testing
- Curing room (and boxes) with controlled temperature and humidity
- Plastic and steel molds with a range of sizes
- Cylinder capping equipment
- Reinforced steel bar bender
- Diamond blade concrete saw
- Compressive strength and flexural strength
- Resistance to freeze-thaw cycles
- Resistance to carbonation
- Chloride mitigation testing system
- Permeability test
- Walk in freezer (+20 °C to -20 °C)
Non-Destructive (NDT)
- Ultrasonic Pulse velocity
- Schmidt HAMMER TEST (digital and manual)
- Concrete Resistivity Meter
- Demec strain gauges
- Temperature/humidity probes
- Thermal imaging
Structural testing
- Accu-Teck Touch 500 (compression test for cubes and cylinders)
- Proceq fully automated pull-off adhesion tester
CONTACT
For more information about concrete testing, please contact Dr. Shahriar Abubakri(abubakri@rowan.edu).