Rock Mechanics System

Overview:
 
Our Integrated Rock Mechanics System is built to meet your research facility standards. Our system is a completely automated testing apparatus capable of performing the following tests:
 
Unconfined Compression
Triaxial
Bending
Indirect
Fracture
Post – Failure Behavior
Creep
Nearly any other compaction test under various stress paths
 
 
This complete system consists of:
 
Integrated safety shutdown mechanisms
Servo controlled stiff frame to minimum energy stored during test and report accurate modulus and strain values. Axial loads up to 200,000 lbs
Pressure vessel 20,000 psi
Pressure Generators (axial, confining and pore pressure pumps)
Electrical feed through connectors for axial, circumferential deformation, load measurement devices or other special transducers such as acoustics measurements
Accepts sample diameters up to 4” with a length of 2 times the diameter
In-vessel instrumentation
Axial, radial strains boundary condition
Internal differential axial stress
Hydrostatic confining pressure
Compressional (P) , 2 orthogonal Shear (S1,S2), and 45° Acoustic Transducers Propagate @1Mhz
Pore pressure and flow rates for vertical & Horizontal SS Permeability determination
Temperature up to 450°C
A rackmount control system housing:
Digital displays
Custom-built PC
Measurement Instrumentation
Acoustic electronics and oscilloscope
Open software architecture to servo of any measured or calculated variable. This provides any stress path loading (Triax, Uniax, IsoStatic)
Real time data acquisition, process control software, graphical user interface analysis tools