CONCRETE  LABORATORY

Course Uses:

     CE 302, CE 401, CE 402

Capacity (No. of Students):

         18

Location:

     Bldg. 1-105

Year Established:

         1972

Objectives:

This lab is mainly used for concrete casting and testing for various undergraduate and postgraduate courses.  The casting of concrete samples is done on an assembly line basis.  The testing includes compression, flexure, permeability.  Some tests are also carried out on paste, mortar, and aggregates.

Major Equipment:

·   3000 kN compression and flexure machine

·   Permeability machine

·   Special compression and flexure machine for small testing cubes and beams.

·   Moulds, humidity chamber, concrete mixers and shakers

·   Molds of different shapes and sizes

Main Experiments:

·        Compression testing of concrete

·        Flexural testing of concrete

·        Permeability of concrete

·        Cube and briquette compression and tensile testing of mortar

·        Sieve analysis of aggregate

·        Specific gravity of coarse aggregates

Service Facilities (inside and outside KFUPM):

·        Research work related with senior projects, M.S. theses, and Ph.D. dissertations.

·    Faculties research work.