Specimen preparation: re-coring, cutting, grinding
- column electrical core drilling machine (radialbohrer) CMR , model Invema KR35, power 2.2kW
- diamond coring tools of various diameter (form 38mm to 150mm)
- special diamond coring tools for dry coring of weak rock
- Clipper electrical saw, model Major ECV3, power 4kW, diamond discs up to 500mm for different type of rock
- set of special diamond discs (300-500mm) for weak and complex rocks
- Cantaluppi grinding machine model MCF 300, power 3kW, sample diameter 30-120mm
Physical-chemical-mineralogical properties
- ALPES electric oven
- ELE equipment, model 151 for vacuum impregnation of specimens
- Ohaus Salter Kern precision balance series (mechanical and electronic)
- pycnometers and glassware of different shapes and capacities
- Dietrich calcimeter - Fruling Controls
- Pundit-CNS for measuring the speed of elastic compression waves "Vp" and shear "Vs" equipped with Tektronix digital oscilloscope
- polarized optical microscope in transmitted light - NIKKON - mod. LABOPHOT-POL equipped with digital camera for petrographic-mineralogical analysis in thin section
Tests on aggregates
- CONTROLS laboratory crusher
- CONTROLS electromechanical sieve
- unified series of UNI square and bar mesh sieves - CONTROLS
- Controls equipment for determining the sand equivalent
- complete equipment for methylene blue determination
- 0-200mm (1/20mm) Vernier Caliper for Shape Index - CONTROLS
- Los Angeles fragmentation resistance testing machine - CONTROLS
- Micro-Deval wear resistance testing machine - CONTROLS
- climatic cabinet - CONTROLS mod. 10-D1429 / D for t ° between -30 ° C and + 70 ° C and humidity between 20-95%
Mechanical and hydraulic properties
- Controls hydraulic press, model C30/N. Max load 1500kN for compression test on sample up to 160x320mm
- Roctest confinement hydraulic cells for triaxial compressive test on cilindrical samples. Diameters: 47.6, 54.7, 63.5, 86.0 mm
- machine for performing direct shear tests on rocks and ROCKTEST joints including accessories and molds for incorporating the specimens
- ENERPAC manual pump (700 bar) for managing confinement pressures during shear and triaxial tests
- installation set for electrical strain gauges on rock specimens complete with accessories
- apparatus for permeability tests in triaxial cells up to pressures of 3500 kPa complete with accessories - CONTROLS
- precision digital pressure gauges - AEP Transducers
- LVDT linear displacement transducer set - SHINKO DENSHI
- Point Load Tester - TECNOTEST
- CDR instrumented frames for creep, swelling and permeability tests
- National Coal Board Cone Indenter device for hardness test
- CDR device for abrasion Cerchar test
- CDR column drill for Sievers perforability tests and Cerchar hardness tests
- equipment for fragmentation tests "Brittleness Test" - CDR
- Slake Durability Test - CONTROLS
- equipment for abrasion resistance tests of natural stones - EMAR
- rock hammers - CONTROLS
Internal calibration checks
- 2.0 MN TMT calibration load cell with reading unit
- 50.0 kN AEP Transducers calibration load cell with reading unit
- 350 bar digital calibration pressure gauge (0.05 bar and 0.05% fs) - AEP Transducers
- Johnson plane-parallel gauge blocks from 1 mm to 100 mm - BORLETTI
