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FACILITIES

Area	Description
1	Sample Receiving / Preparation
2	Apparent Opening Size Testing
3	GCL / Soils / Permeability / Triaxial Testing
4	Geosynthetic / Related Materials Index Testing
5A	Conventional Creep / Stress Rupture
5B	Accelerated Creep / Stress Rupture
6	Short-Term Sample Storage
7	Erosion Control – Index and Bench-Scale Performance Testing
8	Xenon-Arc UV Weatherometers and Environmental Chambers
9	Multi-Axial Tensile and Large-Scale Compression / Out-of-Plane Deformation
10	Stress Crack and Fluorescent UV Resistance - Chemical Resistance Exposure Area
11	Erosion Control Germination and Growth Chambers
12	Proctors / Atterburg Limits / Permeability / Gradient Ratio
13	Interface Friction / Direct Shear
14	Connection / Pull-Out / Anchorage Testing
15	Pipe Testing
16	Soil / Aggregate Storage
17	Long-Term Sample Archive
18	Receiving Dock

TRI is a full-service testing facility accommodating a variety of specification driven testing programs. Various test hardware to support this laboratory's activities include:

Item	Example Laboratory Equipment
1	90 kN (20,000-pound) capacity Instron Universal Testing Machine
2	98 kN (22,000-pound) capacity Instron Servo-Hydraulic Testing Machine with various direct-mounting extensometers
3	150 kN (35,750-pound) capacity Instron Model 5583 testing machine equipped with Merlin Series IX "Smart-Data" acquisition system
4	250 kN (56,000-pound) capacity Instron Model 5585 testing machine equipped with Merlin Series IX "Smart-Data" acquisition system
5	5 kN (1,125-pound) capacity Instron Model 5565 testing machine equipped with Merlin Series IX "Smart-Data" acquisition system
6	65 kN (15,000 lb) capacity large-scale compression LO-TEST test machine capable of testing (1650 mm (65”) diameter pipe.
7	fixturing and support apparatus for diversified materials testing
8	five-station five-2 kN (500-pound) load cell, screw-driven testing machine equipped with automatic data acquisition software to test multiple seam samples concurrently
9	2 five-station five-4.5 kN (1000-pound) load cell, screw-driven testing machines equipped with automatic data acquisition software to test multiple seam samples concurrently
10	load cells and instrumentation for the above with the capability to measure l g – 450 kN (100,000 lbs) in tension or compression
11	Durometer hardness testers
12	Microtome precision cutting apparatus
13	Mullen Model A burst tester with 17,000 kPa (2,500 psi) capability
14	Hydrostatic resistance test apparatus
15	Environmental chambers and forced air/convection ovens
16	Q-Panel and Atlas Weatherometers for Xenon arc and QUV ultraviolet light aging and testing
17	constant and falling head permittivity apparatus
18	Planar and radial hydraulic transmissivity apparatus
19	Long term tension creep/stress rupture apparatus
20	Gradient ratio and biological clogging test apparatus
21	notched constant load test apparatus capable of testing up to 120 specimens
22	multi-axial tension and large scale hydrostatic puncture test apparatus
23	eight direct shear/interface friction apparatus (300 mm (12") box; 90 mm (3-1/2") depth
24	Soils testing equipment (Atterburg limits, grain size, proctor compaction) to support soils/geosynthetics testing
25	GeoTac hydraulic conductivity test apparatus
26	Large-scale connection and pull-out test apparatus