The Humboldt Manufacturing HM-3000.3 load frame provides capabilities suitable for a wide range of geotechnical and structural materials testing procedures. Additional laboratory hardware and software enables unconfined compression (UC), unconsolidated-undrained (UU), consolidated-undrained (CU) and consolidated-drained (CD) testing. Some features of this system are:

• 11 kip axial capacity
• 0.0001 to 3 inch/min programmable rate of displacement (microstepping)
• 4" of platen travel, up to 40" of vertical clearance
• Manual or computer control of load frame
• Digital data acquisition of load, displacement, and pore pressure.
• Digital control and precision regulation of independent cell and back pressures with voltage-to-pressure transducers