Testing furnaces
The Laboratory is equipped with two furnaces, designed to meet the requirements of Belgian and European standards as well as experimental research, and able to test loaded or unloaded specimens.
Vertical furnace
The Laboratory owns a vertical furnace with an exposure of 3.25 x 3.25 m and able to load the test specimen up to 3000 kN. This furnace allows testing partition walls, facades, penetration seals, linear joint seals, doors, loadbearing walls, columns, electrical cables, etc. |
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Horizontal furnace
The Laboratory owns a horizontal furnace with an exposure of 3 x 4 m and able to load the test specimen up to 1000 kN. This furnace allows ceilings, penetration seals, linear joint seals, floors (raised, hollow or self-supporting), roofs, beams, balconies, stairs, etc. |
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Other equipments
For research purposes, the Laboratory owns an electrical heating system consisting of:
- a 65 kVA transformer unit,
- a 6-channel automatic programmer, allowing 6 independently controlled heating zones,
flexible ceramic pad heating elements (max. 1200 ° C). |
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