Mineral Materials
Head of Technical Group:
Dr. rer. nat. Erhard Westiner
The following investigations are offered:
- Assessment of production sites and processing plants of the non-metallic minerals industry
- Performance of surveillance/monitoring and certification measures of aggregate for concrete, asphalt, unbound layers, railway track ballast and armour stones
- Quality assurance of building material mixtures for road and railway construction (verification of suitability, external monitoring)
- Monitoring of recycled construction materials
- Performance of suitability tests with mixtures of building materials for layers with hydraulic binders and extracted material containing tar/pitch
Special equipment:
- Laboratory crushers (jaw and impact mill)
- Computerized particle analyser (CPA)
- Shear test for floor coverings
- Water permeability of floor coverings
- Water permeability of layers without binder (SoB)
- Microscopy (research microscope, thin sections)
- Los Angeles testing device
- Micro Deval machine
