KURTIS GROUP EQUIPMENT
- TAM Air Isothermal Calorimeter
- Leica TCS NT Scanning Ar-laser Confocal Microscope with indexible stage
- WILD MZ6 stereo microscope with indexible stage and photo/video camera
- Sample preparation facilities, including Isomet saw, masonry saw, epoxy impregnation, and Ecomet autopolisher
- Image analysis software, including Image Pro Plus, Matrox Inspector, and Leica 3D
- Three 22-kip (100-N) universal test frames
- 400-kip (1780kN) compression test frame
- Charpy impact tester
- Rockwell hardness
- 8-cell rapid chloride permeability (RCPT) apparatus
- Poroscope concrete air/water permeability apparatus
- Insulated sieve shaker
- Ultrasonic pulse velocity
- Autotitrator
- Fume hood
- CO2 chamber/incubator
- Comparators for standard and autogenous deformation
- Various support equipement, including Nano-pure deionized water system, air permeability (fineness), vibrating table, curing tank, balances, ovens, and environmental chambers (T, RH control)
STRUCTURES, MECHANICS, and MATERIALS LAB EQUIPMENT
- Eirich 5cf high-shear mixer
- 3cf counter-current mixer
- 1cf planetary mixer
- Batching support equipment, including large vibrating table, oven, sieve shaker, balances, aggregate hoppers
- Fog room
- T, RH chambers, including environmentally controlled creep room
- Cylinder end grinder
- 450-kip compression tester
- TGA (up to 600oC)
- Maturity meter
- Concrete penetrometer
- Diamond saws
- Machine shop
OTHER CAMPUS FACILITIES used by KURTIS GROUP
- Scanning and transmission electron microscopy/nanostructure characterization lab
- Nano-indentation
- MicroCT (computed tomography)
- AA and ICP-MS
- Thermal analysis
- X-ray diffraction
- NMR
- PCR system at the Genome Center