MPA HANNOVER’s laboratories are used jointly with the Institute for Building Materials at Leibniz Universität Hannover. Thanks to close cooperation and joint use, a large number of different testing devices are available. The following list gives an overview:
Laboratory rooms
Container for concrete manufacture
- Temperature range – 10 °C to + 50°C
- Testing of fresh concrete, manufacture of test specimens with defined temperatures
Laboratory for binding agents
- Climatisation 20 °C / 65 % rel. humidity
- Testing of binding agents
Creep test room
- Climatisation 20 °C / 65 % rel. humidity
- Shrinkage and creep tests
Conditioning of specimens – climatic chamber 1
- Climatisation 20 °C / 65 % rel. humidity
- Shrinkage and creep tests
Conditioning of specimens – climatic chamber 2
- Climatisation 23 °C / 50 % rel. humidity
- Shrinkage and creep tests
Testing machines
Universal testing machine 10 MN/ 1 MN
- Type: Compression / tensile testing machine 10 MN and 1 MN, hydraulic
- Manufacturer: IST
- Applications: E.g. masonry testing, dynamic tests
- Characteristics: dynamic tests up to 5 Hz at 10 MN and 20 Hz at 1 MN, specimen height up to 4 m
Compression testing machine 5 MN
- Type: Compression testing machine, hydraulic
- Manufacturer: Toni Technik
- Applications: E.g. compressive tests on concrete, bricks
- Characteristics: Specimen height up to 2.5 m
Universal testing machine 1 MN
- Type: Compression / tensile testing machine, hydraulic
- Manufacturer: Losenhausen, modernisation by Doli
- Compressive test: Compressive tests for concrete, tensile tests with concrete steel
Universal testing machine 2.5 MN
- Type: Compression / tensile testing machine, hydraulic
- Manufacturer: Walter & Bai
- Applications: Dynamic compression tests
Universal testing machine 1 MN
- Type: Compression / tensile testing machine, hydraulic
- Manufacturer: Walter & Bai
- Applications: Dynamic compression tests
Compression testing machine 400 kN
- Typ: Compression testing machine, hydraulic
- Manufacturer: Losenhausen, modernisation by Doli
- Applications: Compression tests on concrete, adhesive shear tests
Compression and bending test machine 300 kN / 10 kN
- Type: Compression testing machine 300 kN and bending test machine 10 kN
- Manufacturer: Toni Technik
- Applications: Compression and bending tensile tests on cement mortar prisms and cubes and lightweight concrete cubes
Bending test machine 200 kN
- Type: Bending test machine, hydraulic
- Manufacturer: Mohr & Federhaff, modernisation by Zwick
- Applications: E.g. bending test on components
- Characteristics: Support width up to 15 m
Universal testing machine 100 kN
- Type: Compression / tensile testing machine, electromechanically
- Manufacturer: Zwick
- Applications: Sheet metal testing, steel fibre concrete beams
- Characteristics: Path measurement by external path sensors (video extensometer, Multisens)
Universal testing machine 50 kN
- Type: Compression / tensile testing machine, electromechanically
Manufacturer: Zwick - Applications: Plastic testing, Pressure tests on insulating materials, anchor pull-out tests
- Characteristics: Displacement measurement by external displacement transducers (video extensometer, Multisens), specimen height up to 3.5 m
Bending test machine 50 kN
- Type: Bending test machine, hydraulic
- Manufacturer: Toni Technik
- Applications: Concrete curbstones, concrete and reinforced concrete beams, balcony cladding
Universal testing machine 10 kN
- Type: Compression / tensile testing machine, hydraulic
- Manufacturer: Zwick
- Applications: Testing with fasteners
- Characteristics: Dynamic loads are possible
Resonance testing machine
- Type: Resonance testing machine 400 kN, dynamic
- Manufacturer: Sincotec
- Applications: Dynamic tests in natural frequency, range 20 … 80 Hz
Other testing equipment
Shear test bench for masonry
- Manufacturer: In-house construction
- Applications: Shear-bearing behaviour of masonry
- Characteristic: Testing the shear strength of masonry on test specimens up to 2.5 m x 2.5 m
Creep test benches
- Manufacturer: In-house construction
- Applications: Creep tests for normal concrete, lightweight concrete, aerated concrete
- Characteristics: 6 test benches up to 40 kN, 6 test benches up to 400 kN, 3 test benches up to 1.5 MN
Combined sawing and grinding machine
- Manufacturer: Kolb
- Applications: Sawing and grinding of concrete specimens
- Characteristics: Cutting depth 250 mm, cutting length up to 3 m
Climate simulation chest with flooding
- Manufacturer: Vötsch
- Applications: Frost tests of mineral building materials
- Characteristics: Temperature range -20 °C to + 20°C, flooding with water
Various climatic, temperature and drying cabinets