MATERIALS
Characterization of raw materials and cement raw meal (and their components) in order to make binders (cements, limes, plasters, formulated products...)
Examination and characterization of concretes, raw cements, mineral binders
Assessment of materials to know if they comply with standards (COFRAC, CE) or recommended procedures of process or uses (building stones, aggregates, rocks…)
Additions, slag, silica fumes
Diagnosis of materials checked in our laboratories and advising missions
Thermal diagnosis
Innovative materials in civil engineering / building industry / infrastructures
Innovative binders, mortars and industrial products
Formulation and development of concretes with suitable performances
Study of the interaction between the composition and the performance of materials
Study of the long-term durability of materials and modelling of materials’ behaviour
Industrial applications, recycling of materials, process validation
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CIVIL ENGINEERING / BUILDING / STRUCTURES |
Report of disorders
Specification of areas of anomalies, visual inspection
Examinations, non-destructive measures, sampling (upstream of the study and the diagnosis)
- Pathologies of works and infrastructures
- Diagnosis of structures: masonry and metallic structures
- Diagnosis of materials: concrete, steel, etc.
- Process related to the durability of concrete
- Advice and technical support in repairing
- Feasibility study
- Test beds, experimental devices
- Development of measuring devices
- Work management software
- Optimisation of non-destructive test methods
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HISTORIC MONUMENTS |
Characterization of material components
Non-destructive examinations, sampling, mapping
Characterization of masonry when repairing a monument (before / after shots)
- Pathologies of façades and masonry
- Problems related to cleaning façades
- Diagnosis of polychromies and wall paintings
- Advice and support for preservative treatments and partial annealing of traditional building materials (stone, render, mortar, grout…)
- Follow-up of preservative and partial annealing projects
- Preparation of suitable formulations (mortars, renders, grouts…)
- Feasibility studies of treatment process
- Development of mortar binders applied to partial annealing
- Use of materials in the field of historic monuments: state of issue, quality of used materials and regulation
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ENVIRONMENT |
- Recycled aggregates (concrete, MSWI slag…)
- Industrial waste (iron and steel industry…)
- Residues of thermal processes (flue gas scrubbing slag…)
- Waste from nuclear industry (ashes, mud, concentrates, resins…)
- Water, mud, soil and sediments
- Studies, diagnoses, advice and support
- Characterization / diagnosis of waste
- Diagnosis of disorders due to by-products / recycled waste
- Research and development of recycling technologies for materials
- Waste solidification / stabilization (formulation)
- Treatment and stabilization of polluted soils, sludge (formulation)
- Analysis of life cycles (based on a sheet containing environmental health statement (called “FDES” in French), ecodesign)
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