Laboratory equipment

MPA HANNOVER’s laboratories are used jointly with the Institute for Building Materials at Leibniz Universität Hannover. Thanks to close cooperation and joint use, a large number of different testing devices are available. The following list gives an overview:

 

Laboratory rooms

 

Container for concrete manufacture

  • Temperature range – 10 °C to + 50°C
  • Testing of fresh concrete, manufacture of test specimens with defined temperatures

 

Laboratory for binding agents

  • Climatisation 20 °C / 65 % rel. humidity
  • Testing of binding agents

 

Creep test room

  • Climatisation 20 °C / 65 % rel. humidity
  • Shrinkage and creep tests

 

Conditioning of specimens – climatic chamber 1

  • Climatisation 20 °C / 65 % rel. humidity
  • Shrinkage and creep tests

 

Conditioning of specimens – climatic chamber 2

  • Climatisation 23 °C / 50 % rel. humidity
  • Shrinkage and creep tests

 


 

Testing machines

 

Universal testing machine 10 MN/ 1 MN

  • Type: Compression / tensile testing machine 10 MN and 1 MN, hydraulic
  • Manufacturer: IST
  • Applications: E.g. masonry testing, dynamic tests
  • Characteristics: dynamic tests up to 5 Hz at 10 MN and 20 Hz at 1 MN, specimen height up to 4 m

 

Compression testing machine 5 MN

  • Type: Compression testing machine, hydraulic
  • Manufacturer: Toni Technik
  • Applications: E.g. compressive tests on concrete, bricks
  • Characteristics: Specimen height up to 2.5 m

 

Universal testing machine 1 MN

  • Type: Compression / tensile testing machine, hydraulic
  • Manufacturer: Losenhausen, modernisation by Doli
  • Compressive test: Compressive tests for concrete, tensile tests with concrete steel

 

Universal testing machine 2.5 MN

  • Type: Compression / tensile testing machine, hydraulic
  • Manufacturer: Walter & Bai
  • Applications: Dynamic compression tests

 

Universal testing machine 1 MN

  • Type: Compression / tensile testing machine, hydraulic
  • Manufacturer: Walter & Bai
  • Applications: Dynamic compression tests

 

Compression testing machine 400 kN

  • Typ: Compression testing machine, hydraulic
  • Manufacturer: Losenhausen, modernisation by Doli
  • Applications: Compression tests on concrete, adhesive shear tests

 

Compression and bending test machine 300 kN / 10 kN

  • Type: Compression testing machine 300 kN and bending test machine 10 kN
  • Manufacturer: Toni Technik
  • Applications: Compression and bending tensile tests on cement mortar prisms and cubes and lightweight concrete cubes

 

Bending test machine 200 kN

  • Type: Bending test machine, hydraulic
  • Manufacturer: Mohr & Federhaff, modernisation by Zwick
  • Applications: E.g. bending test on components
  • Characteristics: Support width up to 15 m

 

Universal testing machine 100 kN

  • Type: Compression / tensile testing machine, electromechanically
  • Manufacturer: Zwick
  • Applications: Sheet metal testing, steel fibre concrete beams
  • Characteristics: Path measurement by external path sensors (video extensometer, Multisens)

 

Universal testing machine 50 kN

  • Type: Compression / tensile testing machine, electromechanically
    Manufacturer: Zwick
  • Applications: Plastic testing, Pressure tests on insulating materials, anchor pull-out tests
  • Characteristics: Displacement measurement by external displacement transducers (video extensometer, Multisens), specimen height up to 3.5 m

 

Bending test machine 50 kN

  • Type: Bending test machine, hydraulic
  • Manufacturer: Toni Technik
  • Applications: Concrete curbstones, concrete and reinforced concrete beams, balcony cladding

 

Universal testing machine 10 kN

  • Type: Compression / tensile testing machine, hydraulic
  • Manufacturer: Zwick
  • Applications: Testing with fasteners
  • Characteristics: Dynamic loads are possible

 

Resonance testing machine

  • Type: Resonance testing machine 400 kN, dynamic
  • Manufacturer: Sincotec
  • Applications: Dynamic tests in natural frequency, range 20 … 80 Hz

 


 

Other testing equipment

 

Shear test bench for masonry

  • Manufacturer: In-house construction
  • Applications: Shear-bearing behaviour of masonry
  • Characteristic: Testing the shear strength of masonry on test specimens up to 2.5 m x 2.5 m

 

Creep test benches

  • Manufacturer: In-house construction
  • Applications: Creep tests for normal concrete, lightweight concrete, aerated concrete
  • Characteristics: 6 test benches up to 40 kN, 6 test benches up to 400 kN, 3 test benches up to 1.5 MN

 

Combined sawing and grinding machine

  • Manufacturer: Kolb
  • Applications: Sawing and grinding of concrete specimens
  • Characteristics: Cutting depth 250 mm, cutting length up to 3 m

 

Climate simulation chest with flooding

  • Manufacturer: Vötsch
  • Applications: Frost tests of mineral building materials
  • Characteristics: Temperature range -20 °C to + 20°C, flooding with water

 

Various climatic, temperature and drying cabinets