The Material Testing and Characterisation Laboratory provides facilities for testing a multitude of different building materials under static and dynamic tensile and compressive forces at room temperature as well as elevated temperatures. The range of available universal testing machines allows testing low capacity flexural materials as well as higher strength load bearing elements.
Key equipment:
- 2kN Electro-mechanical universal testing machine
- 30kN Electro-mechanical universal testing machine
- 150kN Electro-mechanical universal testing machine
- Environmental chamber for electromechanical UTS
- Optical microscope
