Main facilities
To carry out its research, the laboratory relies on large facilities dedicated to civil engineering experiments, couple of them of international level. Among these, one may mention 18 lab rooms, one hundred equipments, and around 1500 measuring devices.
Electrochemical lab
for characterizing the phenomena associated with corrosion of reinforced concrete.
Concrete mixer
The laboratory has all the necessary equipment for the implementation of concrete specimens: the control of composition is essential, especially for the study of pathologies.
Press facilities
with hydraulic machines of various capacities (up to 500 t) used to characterise the behaviour of all kinds of materials used in civil engineering and which can be coupled with hydric or thermic control devices;
Facilities for climatic ageing of concrete structures
particularly for internal swelling of concrete, from material to structural scales.
Masonry equipement – material for models
The EMGCU laboratory is equipped with the equipment to carry out uni-axial loading tests on small-scale masonry retaining structures.
Facilities dedicated to creep
with frames allowing for the three main types of loading: compression, tension and bending, as well as relaxation frames.
Numerical tools
for numerical modelling (development of calculation codes, calculation server,...).
Early age concrete behaviour
Facilities used to characterize as precisely as possible the date of concrete setting, the increase of resistance, the risk of cracking, ...