Geotechnical Investigations
ATES, with its in-house capabilities & international collaborators, provides state-of-the-art field & laboratory based services in the area of rock & soil mechanics. ATES innovates, designs and manufactures equipments for in-situ & laboratory based examinations. The division generates highly specialized & qualified geotechnical inputs and provides solutions to challenging issues.
ATES has expertise in field studies for rocks & soils like :
- Drilling and Sampling
- Bore Hole Logging
- Field Permeability
- Standard Penetration Test
- Dynamic Cone Penetration Test
- Vane Shear Test
- Pressuremeter Test (Max. capacity 80 bar)
- Dilatometer (Max. capacity 300 bar)
- Plate Load Test
- Modulus of Sub-grade Reaction (K-Value)
- California Bearing Ratio
- Plate Jacking Test inside drift with option for borehole extensometer for multi-point measurement
- Hydrofracture/HTPF Test
- Flat Jack Test for In-situ Stress Measurement
- In-situ Direct Shear Test
- Pull Out Test of grouted rock anchors
- Monitoring of Rock Movements
Soil, Rock and Construction Material Testing
ATES has well established in-house laboratory of international standards, equipped with modern and up to date instruments for characterizing physic-mechanical properties of soil, rock and rock joints
Soil
- Gradation Analysis
- Atterberg Limit
- Direct Shear Test
- Uniaxial Compressive Test
- Triaxial Compressive Strength Test UU/CU/CD
- Consolidation
- Permeability
- Density
- California Bearing Ratio (CBR)
- Proctor Compaction
- Swell Pressure &Swelling Index
- Determination of total soluble solids, organic matter, calcium carbonate, cation exchange capacity, pH value and total soluble sulphates
Intact rock and rock joints
- Index Properties
- Uniaxial Compressive Test
- Triaxial Compressive Test
- Modulus of Elasticity And Poisson’s Ratio
- Tensile Strength Test
- Point Load Index Test
- Hardness/Toughness Test
- Petrographic Analysis
- Direct Shear Test
Concrete Technology
- Construction Material Survey (RBM, Query, C.A.,F.A. etc)
- Repeated Temperature Cycle Test
- Laboratory Testing of Materials
- Design of Mortar & Concrete Mixes
- Design of Gunite/Shotcrete/Steel Fiber Reinforced Shotcrete Mixes
- Design of Concrete Mixes and Masonry(Calgrout)
- Tests on Hardened Concrete
- Design of Epoxy Resin/Polyurethane Mortars AndEpoxy/Polymer Concrete Mixes
- Temperature Control Studies
- Creep and Shrinkage Characteristics
- Alkali Aggregate Reaction Studies read more...
- Execution and Supervision of Quality Control
- Design of Roller Compacted Concrete Mixes
- Setting Up of Field Laboratories
Petrographic Analysis
Detailed analysis of rock and minerals in thin section including micro-texture, structure and fluid inclusion with the origin of the rock read more...
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