Tips for Pull Testing Engineers
INTRODUCTION
As a structural engineer, you may not have enough data available to determine the resistance ofan anchor for a safe, efficient and cost-effective design. Approval documents or technicalmanuals may not cover the base material. You’re most likely to encounter this when working onreinforcement or restoration projects with older, possibly damaged, concrete or masonry, andalso with natural stone or porous materials, etc.As a project manager, you may need to validate the installation quality of post-installed anchors orrebar and document the executed proof load tests as reference for the quality manager, project owneror an external inspector.For both scenarios, Anchor Pull testing offers anchor on-site testing services.
BENEFITS OF ON-SITE ANCHOR TESTING
Hilti’s on-site anchor testing provides you with a test report and an optional evaluation report, based on
an official guideline, for one of the two following purposes:
• As a basis for you to determine the resistance of a post-installed anchor in an unknown / uncertain
base material
• As an adjunct to help you to control and potentially verify the installation quality
BOUNDARIES OF ON-SITE ANCHOR TESTING
On-site anchor testing has its limitations. Tests of post-installed anchors on the jobsite can
never serve:
• As a substitution for an approval document
• To overrule an existing approval document
• To conclude which is a “better” product by comparison
• As a substitution for proper anchor design
Anchor Pull Testing can support you by preparing the test, executing the test on the jobsite and providing an
evaluation report.
The decisions on the test parameters and further usage of the results must always be taken by
the responsible engineer, because only the responsible engineer has the full project overview
and knowledge
Anchor Pull Out Testing.
Based in Manchester.
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