Rock, Construction Material Properties and Quality Control Laboratory
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The Rock, Building Materials Properties and Quality Control Laboratory is a structural unit of the Institute as an integrated part of the Research Center of Engineering Developments and Design.
In 1945, at the Institute of Metal and Mining of the USSR Academy of Sciences there was founded the Rock Physico-mechanical Properties Analysis Group. On the basis of the group the laboratory was established (1999-2019 - department).
MAIN SCIENTIFIC DIRECTIONS:
Rock, soil and concrete mechanics:
- Test of physical-mechanical properties of rocks and soils;
- Selection of concrete-making materials and determination of physical-mechnacial properties;
- Development of concrete recipes;
- Investigation and determination of physical-mechanical properties of concrete mixture and reinforced concrete;
- Investigation of properties of road construction and other building materials;
- Investigation and determination of time yield and impact resistance properties of concretes and rocks
- Soil sieve analysis;
- Determination of soils' plasticity and flow index;
- Improvement of methods for investigation of physical-mechanical properties of rocks and concretes.
EXPERIMENTAL BASE:
- Balances, indicators, monometers and thermometers;
- Laboratory glass- and metal ware;
- Sieve set;
- Consistency measuring devices;
- Concrete specimen manufacturing molds;
- Abrams cones;
- Concrete sample care devices, tools, equipments;
- Rock cutting and processing machinery;
- Core drilling machine;
- Hydraulic presses of 5, 10, 50, 60/120, 125/250, 250/500 tonnage;
- Apparatus for shear testing of hardrock and clay material;
- Rock compression testing machines, etc.
EXPERT, СONSULTING AND PROJECT OPPORTUNITIES:
CONTRACT WORKS:
More than 400 works have been completed.