Rock Testing
The School of Earth and Environment | Te Kura Aronukurangi has a well-resourced rock mechanics laboratory for testing the strength, permeability, porosity and ultrasonic properties of rocks. The equipment includes:
- 2 Compression frames (maximum load of 3000kN)
- Synchronous strain measurements
- Triaxial cells
- Pulse Decay Permeameter
- Steady State Permeameter
- Pycnometer for porosity testing
- Digital point load testers
- Portable rock shear-box
- Slake-durability equipment
- Ultrasonic compression and shear wave velocity analyser
- Schmidt hammers
Rock Preparation
A self-contained rock preparation room adjacent to Rock Mechanics houses:
- 3 Rock drills
- 2 Rock saws
- 3 Rock grinders
A small field drill is also available for some core samples to be collected in the field.
