Avantech Engineering Consortium Pvt Ltd

About us:
Avantech, an ISO 9001: 2008 certified enterprise, was established in 2001
as AE&C by engineering professionals having a combined experience of
over 30 years in the industry. Today, we represent worlds most reputed
manufacturers and developers of innovative test equipment & software
and have over 1000 satisfied users all over India.

We believe that previous technologies will not remain relevant for today's
requirement and today's solution will not be adequate for tomorrow. In
this quest, we are always on the lookout for new innovations and
technologies that we can offer for the benefit of our customers.
 Our International Partners:
Germann Instruments, Denmark: Advanced NDT and in-situ test instruments for concrete.

Utsi Electronics, UK: Extensive range of next generation Ground Penetrating Radars for
pavement.

Humboldt Mfg, USA: Civil Engineering Testing Equipment

Trinity Highway, USA: Wire Rope Safety Barriers, Metal Beam Crash Barriers, End terminals for
crash barriers, impact Attenuators/Crash Cushions, Truck Mounted Attenuators.

Zehntner, Switzerland: Retroreflectometers and road marking systems.

GCTS, USA: Advanced Laboratory Testing Equipment for Soil, Rock and asphalt.

Zorn Instruments, Germany: Soil Field Test Instruments.

Profound BV, Netherlands: Pile foundation testing instruments and vibration analysis systems.

Geoslope International, Canada: Software for geotechnical analyses and modelling.

 Pullout Test
ASTM C 900

Measure force to pullout an insert anchored in

concrete.
 Cast-in-place (CIP): LOK-Test
 Post-installed (PI): CAPO-Test
Post-Installed Pullout Test
CAPO-Test
• Does not require pre-planning test
locations
• Can perform test at any accessible
location
• Permits testing of existing structures
• Immediate test results compared with
cores
Prepare Concrete

Plane surface
Drill hole

18 mm
25 mm

Cut slot

25 mm
Surface
Planing
 Cut Slot
3.5 mm

25 mm
Cut Slot
Cut Slot
Insert Expansion Cone
and Coiled Split-Ring

Coiled ring

Cone
Ring Expansion Hardware

Nut

Coiled ring Bevel

Cone
Expand Ring

Nut
Pullout the Expanded Ring
 Manufacturer’s
General Correlations
100
Compressive Strength, MPa

80 f = 0.76 F1.16
cube

60

f = 0.69 F1.12
cyl
40

20 General Correlations for

Cylinder and Cube Strength

0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
Pullout Load, kN
 Robust Correlation
Not affected by:
• Type of cementitious materials
• Water-cement ratio
• Age
• Air entrainment
• Types of admixtures
• Shape or size of normal density aggregate
up to 40 mm
 Lightweight aggregate, however, produces
significantly different correlation
Case Study

November/December 2016
 Correlation
60
Core Strength
Best fit curve: f = 0.77F1.15
core
50
Upper Confidence Limit
Lower Confidence Limit
Core Strength, MPa

40 General Correlation: f = 0.76F1.16

cube

30

20

10

0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
CAPO-TEST, kN
 Pullout Tests- Accuracy
Investigations, show that
strengths estimated by the
pullout tests are within 6-8% of
the core strength.
Various studies have confirmed
the inherent reliability of pullout
testing for estimating in-place
compressive strength.

Reference: Wroclaw Technical University, Poland

 Summary
• CAPO-Test allows testing without pre-placing
inserts

• Carbonation did not appear to affect CAPO-Test results

 CAPO Test Users in India

 IIT Delhi  Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College,

 IIT Bhubaneswar Ludhiana
 IIT Roorkee  RGPV, Bhopal
 NCCBM, Ballabhgarh  Dr. Fixit Institute, Mumbai
 Bengal Engineering & Science University,  PWD Patiala, Punjab
Kolkata  PWD Delhi
 Central Road Research Institute , Delhi  PWD Karnataka
 Central Building Research Institute,  PWD Assam
Roorkee  RDSO, Lucknow
 NITTTR Chandigarh  Civil Aid Techno Clinic, Bangalore
 NITTTR Bhopal  IR Class, Mumbai
 NITTTR Kolkata  And Various other Private/ Independent
 Thapar University, Patiala Testing Laboratories
Thank You !