Technical and scientific expertise

• For producers, certification bodies and construction companies
• Tests on prestressing steel: tensile testing, fatigue, relaxation, corrosion under tension, deflected tensile.
• Tension and fatigue tests on reinforced concrete steel bars and couplers
• Tensions tests on steel material
• Tests on bridge neoprene bearings – Dimension control, shear tests, compression tests
• Tests on railway sleepers – dynamic and static bending, frost conditioning, … recognized by Infrabel
• Tests on composite (Fiber Reinforced Resin): tension-compression, shear, bending, …

• Fastening system components (pads, USP, UBM, springs, …): static and dynamic stiffness, fatigue, creep tests, …
• Whole fastening systems (discrete or continuous) : vertical stiffness (static and dynamic), effect of repeated loading (in one inclined direction or biaxial), freeze-thaw resistance, ultimate loading, …
• Whole tracks (slab track, ballasted track, level crossing, …) : determination of the frequency response, fatigue tests, loading with a real-scale bogie
• Since several years, the procedures of railway tests are more and more fixed by standards (ISO, EN, DIN, …). The requirements of many of them can be met by the laboratory.

Numerous medium and large scale tests were already realized on the test floor for companies as Arcelomittal, Mobic, Besix, etc: mainly bending tests on slabs and beams (concrete, steel-concrete composite, timber, …).

The limitations are mainly related with the maximum capacities of our hydraulic jacks, but each test configuration has to be studied individually.