Technical University of Kosice, Faculty of Civil Engineering

Type of services provided

• Loading tests of load bearing structures
• Displacement and stress measurement of load bearing members
• Purpose of creation of 3D models
• Determination of granularity of coarse-grained and fine-grained materials.
• Determination of size and distribution of particle size of powder materials used in construction, sediment, sludge and other particulate materials
• Measurement of ionizing radiation of building materials
• Uniform decomposition of hard-to-decompose rigid samples of building and other materials with the possibility of single-stage as well as multi-stage decomposition at temperatures up to 300°C
• Monitoring of toxic gases, oxygen and flammable gases for workers in hazardous environments
• Measurement of cohesion strength
• Preparation of powders
• Determination of cement solidification time
• Determination of compressive, tensile and transverse strength
• Determination of frost resistance of materials and resistance to CHRL
• Measuring the efficiency and performance of heating, cooling, ventilation
• Testing and detecting the operational efficiency of renewable energy sources (heat pumps of all kinds, solar collectors)
• Testing of long-term and short-term heat and cold accumulation
• “Automatic Measurement of Moisture Conductivity and Capillary Moisture Value by One-Dimensional Water Absorption
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• Long-term in-situ measurement of the thermal-humidity behavior of building structures.
• Measurement of density of building materials by gravimetric method

Determination of water resistance of concrete

Research infrastructure/service category

• Testing platform – loading frames, actuators Instron and Inova for static and dynamic tests of load bearing structures
• Universal data acquisition system HBM – measurement of the displacements and stresses of the load bearing structures
• Adaptive tensegrity systems – response measurement of the tensegrity systems on static and dynamic load
• Creep tester Instron – cable creep measurement
• 3D laser scanner FARO Focus X130 3D allows the digitization of existing buildings and environments for the purpose of creation of 3D models in the BIM platform
• Sound Level Meter
• System PULSE- Noise, vibration
• Statistical radar- traffic-ingeneering data
• Software for traffic plannig PTV VISION
• Software forsound modellin
• Particle Size Analyzer, Mastersizer 2000; Malvern Instruments Ltd, UK
• Surface area analyzer, Quantachrome Nova 1000e
• Advanced Microwave Digestion Labstation ETHOS 1; MILESTONE
• Spectrometer SPECTRO IQII; AMETEK
• Gas Chromatograph 7890A; Agilent
• Colorimeter DR/890 a DR/2800, HACH LANGE
• FTIR Spectrometer BRUKER OPTICS ALPHA
• diffractometer Bruker AXS, D2 Phaser
• Simultaneous Thermal Analyzer –NETZSCH STA 449 F3 Jupiter
• Radioactivity measuring equipment Empos EMS 1A- SHM
• Ultra Fast GC Analyzer Z-Nose 4300
• advanced wireless handheld VOC monitor RAE Systems, Inc. ppbRAE 3000
• Confined Space MultiGas Detector RAE Systems, Inc. MultiRAE PLUS PGM-50
• Airborne Particle Counter Graywolf Sensing Solutions Ltd.-Lighthouse HANDHELD 3016
• luminance meter Konica Minolta-LUMINANCE METER LS-110
• CO2 meter in ambiant air Testo Inc.- Testo 535
• sound level meter Testo Inc.- Testo 815
• Temperatue and Humidity meter Testo Inc.-Testo 601
• Sampling pump SKC Inc.- AirCheck2000
• Sound level meter Brüel & Kjaer- Typ 2250
• Anemometer Testo Inc.- Testo 425
• Vernon-Jokl sphere thermometer
• Planetary Ball Mill MTI-SFM-1 and URF Technology- AGO 2
• Laboratory sieve FRITSCH
• Compression testing machine Matest-ELE 2000
• Eqiupment that measures the force required to tear of a outside surface acording to norm EN 1542: 2001
• Schmidt concrete hardness-meter, using STN 73 1373 methods
• Scale Radwag- WTC 150C3 150kg max. load
• Scale Kern 10kg max load.
• Laboratory crusher
• Vibrational mill VM 4
• Concrete mixer
• Horizontal concrete mixer HMB-75 up to 75l
• Laboratory cement mixer Matest-E 093
• Special table for measuting of concrete consistency
• Vibrational table for packing of concrete in forms
• Dryer KCB 62/250-200l, max 200°C
• Permeability tester
• Comparator of lenght for 40x40x160 mm concrete beams- used for measuring of shortening of different cements
• Ceramic furnace
• Automatic Vicat machine
• Dryer , max. 750 l, max. 200°C
• Multidirectional testing press Matest (range: 50-3000kN)
• Schleibinger testing station with accessories
• Stirolab heat flux meter
• Wincontrol: Software Almemo plus PPD PMV evaluation software
• Multi-channel measuring central Almemo 200
• Portable measuring central Almemo 750 100 channels, 10 ports
• Portable measuring central Almemo 750 4 ports
• Digital thermometer Almemo
• Digital Psychrometer Almemo, measutin temperature and humidity of air
• Alfameter Almemo
• Tensiometer: measuring of hydrostatic pressure
• Termo-anenometer Almemo multi-directional air flow measuring device
• Psychrometer- Almemo
• Sensors Almemo for connection to central
• Thermalvision
• Measuring set for measuring of hydro and air turbines power
• Device for measunring of shrot and long term accumulation of heat
• Smart home- simulation of real condions
• AWRORA- device prototype foer measuting of capilarity an other aspects of the phenomenon
• Experimental testing chambers for longterm in-situ measurements of construction behaviour
• Thermotron 8800 climate chamber for maintaining of temperature from -30°C up to 120 °C
• Device testing waterproofness of concrete