The aranzu Mobile Unconfined Compressive Strength (UCS) Curing Facility
Many mines require the storage of high volumes of backfill samples, sometimes more than 40 000 samples, to ensure they meet their quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) requirements for the backfill they’ve placed. More often than not, building a permanent facility specifically for this requirement is not feasible, and we have developed a containerised aranzu UCS Curing Facility, which is mobile, adaptable, modular and self-contained.
Our containerised curing facility offers temperature and humidity control (to replicate the underground mining conditions), which is important for curing mine backfill samples, where the curing temperature must be maintained for QC purposes. The units are designed to control temperature over a range of 20 to 40°C (higher and lower can be provided on special request). The samples are cured in free draining cylindrical moulds or concrete cube moulds.
The containers are outfitted and delivered to site, fully equipped with the following:
- rows of free draining shelving,
- draining points,
- a centralized HVAC system,
- humidifying system (optional),
- and a work surface and a lockable doorway with an emergency exit.
The units are also waterproofed to allow periodic wash down of the surfaces and shelving as required.
Depending on the size and number of samples required to store, the container size is available as a six- or twelve-meter unit, with high cube variations of the six- or twelve-meter containers also available.
The aranzu curing facility is not limited to only curing cementitious samples. The temperature and humidity range of the facility can be altered to any custom requirement on request.
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