LAGIRN - Main laboratory equipment
Main laboratory equipment:
- Core drills with diamond core bits
- Circular saws with diamond disc
- Grinding machine with cup wheel/grindstone
- Primary and secondary laboratory crushers
- Lab grinding/crushing mills with various ground bodies
- Ball Mill, Bond Work Index Test
- 500 ml jar mill with ceramic balls
- Blade mill for plastics
- Quarters for sand and gravel with adjustable openings
- Vibrating sifter machine with UNI series mesh and perforated metal sheet sieves Ø = 208 mm
- Vibratory sifter with sieves and sieves Ø = 300 mm
- Laser granulometer (powder size 250 μm - 0.16 μm)
- Ultrasonic tank for cleaning sieves up to Ø = 300 mm
- Water permeameters with constant and variable head on granular materials
- Micropump for flow rates from 1 μl / min to 10 ml / min
- Oedometric cells
- Gas and water permeameters for rocks
- Helium and mercury porosimeters for rocks
- Analytical and technical balances with hydrostatic weighing equipment
- Vacuum pumps with vacuum bells of various sizes and equipment to saturate samples
- Natural and forced air circulation dryers (stove/oven, max temperature 220 ° C)
- Pycnometers of various sizes
- Equipment for measuring water absorption at low pressure (pipette method)
- Dietrich Fruhling calcimeter
- Surface moisture meter with dielectric method
- Equipment for measuring P and S waves in rocks with 1 MHz probes
- 5.5 kN and 55 kN dual range point load test
- Punch Indentation test
- 2000 kN servo-hydraulic press with interchangeable cells of 500, 50, 20, 10.1 kN with advancement in force or displacement control and data acquisition system via PC for:
- uniaxial compression tests,
- triaxial compression tests with Hoek cells of 38 and 54 mm (with manual hydraulic pump max 50 MPa),
- uniaxial compression tests and with relief of deformations by electrical strain gauges,
- 3 or 4 knife flexural strength tests- indirect tensile strength tests (Brazilian test)
- Electromechanical press with 10 and 50 kN cells equipped with equipment for bending tests
- Knoop micro hardness test micro hardness tester on rocks
- Abrasimeter with wheel Ø = 200 mm and L = 70 mm for rocks and concrete
- Pendulum for laboratory and in situ slipperiness tests
- Equipment for the determination of the breaking energy (impact resistance)
- 380 liter professional freezer cabinet for freezing tests (range + 7 ° / -20 ° C)
- 100 liter thermostatic tank (range / + 90 ° C)
- Rock Index Hardness Number equipment (RIHN)
- Petrographic microscope with camera
- Schmidt hammer for rocks
- Mud balance (API specification)
- Baroid filter press (API specification)
- Marsh funnel (API specification)
- Rotational viscometer
- Sand content determination (API specification)
- Shearometer (API specification)
- Mixers
- Electrometric pH-meter
- Soxhlet extractors of 500 and 2000 ml
- Centrifuge
- Esaote Artoscan-C tomograph with 0.19T permanent magnet
- Stelar NMR analog console with 0.18T permanent magnet
- Stelar NMR digital console with 0.18T permanent magnet
- Console and electromagnet for the measurement of NMR relaxation times with the Fast Field cycling method
- NMR mouse: portable surface probe for NMR signal
- Monoaxial geophones
- Triaxial accelerometers with signal acquisition and conditioning system
- Piezoelectric accelerometers signal acquisition and conditioning system
- Capacitive accelerometers signal acquisition and conditioning system
- Portable calibrator
- Integrating sound level meter
- Precision microphone with stand and 10m extension cable complete with preamplifier, amplifier and pistophone for calibration
- Pitot tube Ø = 8 mm L = 1000 mm
- Hot wire anemometry probe
- Fan anemometry probe Ø = 110 mm
- Hygrothermal probe
- Portable electric generator
- Downhole camera for structural survey in wells with winch and 500 m of instrumented cable
- Continuous image shooting system of tiles consisting of 3 conveyor belts and 2 tile picking systems