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