The Faculty of Science and Technology at UiS has several laboratories within the field of construction and building materials. Here is an overview of relevant equipment and facilities.
These study programmes use the laboratories in teaching:
Mechanical workshop
The mechanical workshop has equipment for joining, cutting, folding, bending and removing chips from materials. We can help machine materials used for experiments that require a high degree of accuracy and produce special parts for equipment that cannot be obtained elsewhere. We can make parts in most types of plastics and metals.
Equipment that is produced or adapted for a specific purpose is often refined during the fabrication process and this usually takes place through a continuous dialogue with the orderer. The workshop is available for both research and teaching and for use by both students and staff.
Kontaktperson: Emil Mannes Surnevik
3D-printing
The 3D printing laboratory has equipment for 3D printing parts in various types of plastic, such as ABS, PLA and TPU, and an FDM metal printer, which are used for laboratory work by students and for research. There are also 3D printers for biomedical research. DLP printing available, Digital light processing for Lumen X printer.
The parts produced vary from prototypes to display models. The facilities are used by both students and staff and are also used in subjects like CAD/CAP and 3D Printing.
Contact persons: Jan-Tore Jakobsen, Andreas Skaare, og Hanne Røland Hagland (bioprinting)
Concrete
The laboratory has equipment for producing concrete and equipment for carrying out tests on concrete in both fresh and hardened states based on NS-EN standards.
Contact persons: Jarle Berge og Samdar Kakay
Wood
The faculty has its own wood workshop. The workshop has large benches and some tools that can be used for, for example, building models. It also has machines and equipment that are used by students and staff for project assignments, such as a laser cutter and various saws.
Contact person: Andreas Skaare
Roadbuilding
The roadbuilding laboratories can be used for analysing and testing aggregates, bitumen, bituminous masses and asphalt. Asphalt masses can also be produced, with the preparation and compaction of samples. The equipment and facilities are used by students and staff, as well as external companies that order testing and reports on various roadbuilding materials that will be used in Rogaland.
The laboratory has equipment for heating bitumen samples, and it can conduct Fraass breaking point tests (the temperature at which bitumen reaches critical brittleness and cracks), softening point tests (the temperature at which binders, under standardised conditions, achieve a certain viscosity) as well as needle penetration tests (which determine the hardness of bitumen and bituminous binders by measuring the penetration of a needle into the sample). In the laboratory, users can also prepare asphalt samples with an asphalt mixer before testing the asphalt through Marshall impact compaction (the samples are placed in a cylindrical form (90 mm diameter) and compacted with a Marshall compactor to a length of approximately 90 mm. In addition, users can determine the indirect tensile strength and load distribution coefficient of bituminous masses, as well as the sample’s density, and calculate bitumen content.
For aggregates, users can crush and split stone samples and rocks into smaller, representative fractions. The density of aggregates can be determined using water baths and steel pycnometers. Sieve shaker analysis is used for grading aggregate materials and can be used for all aggregates from 0.063 mm to 90 mm, while sedimentation tests use a hydrometer to grade aggregate materials smaller than 0.063 mm.
Contact person: Guzmán Cruz
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