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Concrete is a composite construction material made primarily from aggregate, cement, and water in order to obtain a robust stone like material. There are many formulations of concrete that provide various properties. Concrete is the most widely used man-made product in the world as the main building material. The quality of concrete is important in planning earthquake resistant structures that minimize damage, preventing injury and human loss. Due to this reason, concrete must be closely controlled according to the relevant standards in every stage of production by experienced people using quality test equipment. Zeal also proposes a vast selection of NDT Instruments and apparatus with precise indications concerning the product use and the relative applications.
LABTEST Soil Testing Equipments are used for understanding and investigating the physical/mechanical properties, critical characteristic behaviors, performance of soil, unbound and hydraulically bound mixtures during compression, shear or inner liquid flow under dynamic and vibrating loading conditions. Soil characteristics are also used for deciding the most suitable method for excavating underground tunnels. The soil tests provide the engineering firms and construction companies with the ability to predict the mechanical behavior of soils in order to design foundations that ensure resistance to forces likely to act upon it, including any unusual / extreme events such as earthquakes or hurricanes, thus providing a safe environment for people in or around the structures.
Mineral aggregates are fundamental materials that are used in all areas of construction industry such as concrete, mortars, bituminous mixtures, surface treatments for roads, airfields and other trafficked areas, railway ballast, unbound and hydraulic bound mixtures in civil engineering works and road constructions, which comprise our modern world as buildings, highways, dams, railways etc. Thus it is crucial to determine the properties of aggregates according to related EN, ASTM, AASTHO, BS standards. In the majority of cases the EN Standards correspond to other reference Standards as for example ASTM and AASHTO and, apart from a few exceptions there is almost no difference in the specification of test apparatus.
The majority of the proposed models concern the tension test of reinforcing bars. In particular, the High capacity steel tensile testers have been specifically designed to test reinforcing bars. The front loading of specimens, the hydraulic gripping system, the remote control and the fully automatic test sequence make these tester the ideal solution for Central Laboratory for construction materials. However, some of the machines can be used for many other applications for testing flexible and elastic materials such as plastics, textiles, rubber, wires etc. Most of the machines are controlled by PC assuring a simplification and rationalization of test procedures with all the other advantages associated with the use of the most modern electronic and informatics techniques.