Schleibinger developed a special ultrasonic unit with an integrated datalogger and a special designed setup for the mortar specimen.

The measurement principles of the Vikasonic is this: fresh mortar is setting between two ultrasonic transducers, which are supplied with 0.25s or less pulses per second at a frequency of 54 kHz. The mortar changes, according to the setting, the ultrasonic transition time. From the beginning of first contact of the growing binder-stone, the ultrasonic sound speed increases. If there is a complete crystalline structure the change of the sound speed will be slower. Until the a further aggregation of the cement stone it increases again.