Materials Testing

Concrete

  • Mix Design
  • Compression
  • Flexural Strength
  • Drying Shrinkage

Aggregates

  • Grading Analysis
  • Sodium/Magnesium Sulfate Soundness
  • Injurious Organic Matter
  • Sand Equivalency
  • Unit Weight
  • Specific Gravity
  • Absorption
  • Los Angeles Rattler
  • Clay Lumps and Friable Particles
  • Mortar-Making Properties
  • Relative Mortar Strength
  • Cleanness Value
  • Durability Index
  • Percentage Crushed Values

Steel

  • Tensile and/or Bend (Structural Rebar)
  • Torque Wrench Calibration
  • Rockwell Hardness (Bolts, Nuts, Washers)
  • Welder Certification
  • Weld Procedure Qualification

Asphaltic Concrete

  • Maximum Specific Gravity of Bituminous Mixtures
  • Marshall Mix Testing
  • State of California Testing (CalTrans Method)
Construction Inspection

Masonry

  • Compression (Grout and Mortar)
  • Shear
  • Conrete Masonry Unit (CMU)
  • CMU Absorption
  • CMU Lineal Shrinkage

Soils

  • Atterburg Limits
  • Specific Gravity
  • Grading Analysis
  • Hydrometer Analysis
  • Compaction Testing
  • California Impact Compaction
  • California Bearing Ratio
  • Stabilometer Test (S-Value)
  • Resistivity Test (R-Value)
  • Expansion Index (Swell Test)
  • pH Test and pH Lime
  • Compressive Strength (lime or Cement Treated)
  • Unconfined Compression
  • Direct Shear
  • Triaxial Compression
  • Consolidation

Non-Destructive Testing

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