Materials treated with cement and hydraulic binders

Concrete mixers (30 and 80 litres), equipment for characterising cement pastes, mortars and concrete, in particular to assess their workability, strength and shrinkage, and a concrete rheometer.

 Equipment for the characterisation of cement-treated aggregates, whether excavatable or not (vibro-compression, characterisation of excavatability, etc.)

Two hydraulic presses (200 kN and 3000kN), for measuring compressive and tensile strength as well as the elastic modulus of hydraulic materials; a bending fatigue bench for trapezoidal specimens.

A restrained shrinkage test machine to assess the tendency for materials to crack using test specimens of up to 2.7m long.