Managing director and founder of Test Machines Australia, Paul Cibotto, explores the company’s material testing systems.

“Major” equipment includes a concrete compression tester, course aggregate sieve shakers, a direct shear machine, a consolidation loading frame, and a UU/unconfined compression testing machine.

One set of cylinders is placed in a concrete compression testing machine and tested for compressive strength. When this strength is known another cylinder is taken from the curing tank and ...