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[22.11.07] CARES Approval for UAE Fabricator

R-TECH Services and sister company Metamet Consultants Ltd have helped a reinforcement fabrication company in UAE achieve CARES approved status. Metamet provided the consultancy input, whilst R-TECH Services conducted the weld assessment work required for CARES approval of welded pile cages.

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[22.11.07] Reverse bend tester for PSC wire

R-TECH Services is looking to acquire a reverse bend tester for testing PSC wire in sizes 4-7mm according to ISO 7801. Any equipment, new or used considered.

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[22.11.07] R-TECH Services at Big 5 Dubai

R-TECH Services will be exhibiting at the Big 5 trade exhibition at the Dubai International Exhibition Centre from 25th to 29th November.

The Big 5 is the most important five days for the construction industry in the Middle East and the largest trade show for the construction industry in the Arabian Gulf. A unique event, combining seven major exhibitions under one roof, featuring more than 2,000 companies from 67 countries.

R-TECH Services will be part of the International Business Wales stand 3E121. We would be pleased to meet you there, and discuss how we may be of service.

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[10.11.05] New Bond Testing Capability

R-TECH Services now has the capability of performing bond tests according to BS 4449:2005 Annex A. R-TECH Services is believed to be the first laboratory in the UK to offer this service. It will be of particular interest to manufacturers of reinforcing steel who need to demonstrate bond performance of their bars.

The test, taken from the European Standard EN 10080, is based on a method originally developed by RILEM. The test involves four-point bending of a test beam, consisting of two half-beams, with the test bar running through them in the tension zone. The displacement between the bar ends and each half beam of concrete is measured as a function of the applied load. Bond stresses can be calculated, according to the equations given in the EC2 design code BS EN 1992-1-1.

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New BS 4449 Published

September 2005

   

BSI has published new revisions of the following standards:

   

BS 4449:2005

BS 4482:2005

BS 4483:2005

BS 8666:2005

 

These revisions bring the UK reinforcing standards up to date, and align them with the soon-to-be published European Standard EN 10080. R-TECH Services is already UKAS approved to all of the test methods referred to in these standards, except bond testing, for which development is underway.

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New Testing Technician joins R-TECH Services

July 2005

 

R-TECH Service announces that Mike Williams has joined them as Laboratory Technician. Mike worked with Tony Franks and Russell Chiplen at Allied Steel and Wire, and brings with him a wealth of experience of testing.

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R-TECH increases fatigue testing capability

January 2005

   

R-TECH Services is pleased to announce that its scope of fatigue testing to BS 4449 has been increased to include bars up to 40mm diameter. A new 250kN load capacity servo-hydraulic machine has been designed and built specially for R-TECH by Si-Plan Electronics Research. The new equipment means that R-TECH can now perform fatigue testing on the whole range of reinforcing bars from 6-40mm diameter.

 

 

 

 

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