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In addition to the main areas of research, such as the subsequent reinforcement of existing bridge structures or the material development of high-strength and ultra-high-strength structures, the construction laboratory offers services in the field of material and component testing.
The services include:
Laboratory analyses
CHEMICAL ANALYSES
- Chloride content
- Carbonate content
- Cement content
- Sulphate content
- pH value
PHYSICAL BUILDING MATERIAL ANALYSES
- Depth of carbonation
Concentration of building-damaging salts - Moisture content, maximum water absorption, degree of moisture penetration
- AKR performance tests
STRUCTURAL DAMAGE ANALYSIS, REPAIR
- Electrochemical methods for corrosion protection of reinforced concrete
- Ultrasonic analysis for crack detection
- Drilling resistance measurement on timber components
Contact: FH-Prof. Dr. DI Martin Schneider
- Energy efficiency and hygrothermal analysis of the building envelope
- Building physics damage analysis (mould, wood-destroying fungal growth, frost damage, etc.)
Contact: DI Dr. Christoph Buxbaum
Measurement and testing technology
TESTING OF COMPONENTS, CONNECTIONS AND FASTENING SYSTEMS
- Static (up to max. 2.10 MN) and cyclic load application (up to 500 kN)
- Fatigue testing (up to 10 Hz)
- Dowel pull-out test (up to 200 kN)
- Electronic force, deformation and strain measurements
- photogrammetric image correlation system
STRENGTH TESTS FOR CONCRETE, SCREED, WOOD, STEEL, ETC.
- Compressive, tensile and bending
- tensile strengths
- Tensile adhesion tests
- Steel tensile tests
- modulus of elasticity
- Splitting tensile tests etc.
Contact: FH‐Prof. DI Dr. Norbert Randl
NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING AND CONDITION ASSESSMENT OF CONCRETE STRUCTURES
- Reinforcement localisation and diameter determination
- Concrete cover measurement
- Corrosion analyses
- Potential field measurement
- Resistography
- Ultrasonic impulse echo
Contact: FH‐Prof. DI Dr. Martin Schneider
BUILDING PHYSICS MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGY
- Heat, temperature and humidity curves
- Climate chamber for simulating temperature differences for wall-type components
Contact: DI Dr. Christoph Buxbaum