The Mass Laboratory intends to undertake the following work in the period ahead:
- Manufacturing an electronic mass comparator
- Improving the measuring cell technology
- Experimental determination of air density by weighing specially designed buoyancy artefacts under vacuum and in air
- Experimental determination of air density by weighing specially designed buoyancy artefacts in inert gas
- Investigation of convection influences on the weighing process
- Investigation of a carbon dioxide snow cleaning method and cleaning effects on the long term stability of mass standards, comparisons with other cleaning methods
- Investigation of different storage conditions for transfer standards and determination of the optimum storage conditions
- Investigation of the magnetic properties of mass standards and weighing instruments
- Determination of the density / volume of mass standards by robotic system
- Determination of density of specially designed buoyancy artefacts using the hydrostatic system
- Investigation of surface effects on solid objects in liquid and characterisation of surface properties by XPS
- Improving flotation methods for the determination of the density value of solid materials
- Dynamic mass measurements
- Pattern approval tests of automatic weighing instruments within the scope of legal metrology (OIML R50:Belt weighers, OIML R51:Automatic catchweighers and checkweighers, OIML R61:Automatic gravimetric filling machines, OIML R106:Automatic rail-weighbridges, OIML R107:Discontinuous totalizers and OIML R134 :Automatic instruments for weighing road vehicle in motion.)