NIOSH Mining Laboratory
Soil/Rock Properties Laboratory |
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| Wet cure room at the Soil/Rock Properties Laboratory |
The Soil/Rock Properties Laboratory is contained in the soils bay, a 4,700 sq ft facility that provides space and equipment for preparing, characterizing, and testing consolidated and unconsolidated materials. The laboratory provides the capability to wash, screen, dry, and mix unconsolidated materials such as soils prior to testing. Consolidated or cemented materials and rock are tested for various engineering properties using a suite of test frames in the laboratory.
The laboratory contains a 70 sq ft wet cure room equipped to fog-cure cementicious samples prior to testing. Depending on the samples' components or the required curing timeframe, the room provides space for large-sized samples as well as a large number of samples. The laboratory is also equipped with a million pound compression test frame, direct shear test frame, programmable controlled tension-compression test frame, three tension-compression test frames, and a fiber panel testing device.
Site: Spokane Research Laboratory
Equipment: Million Pound Compression Test Frame , Direct Shear Test Frame , Programmable Controlled Tension-Compression Test Frame , Tension-Compression Test Frames , Fiber Panel Testing Device