Construction Materials Testing
Quicklinks:
A) Foundation Inspections
B) Lab Testing: Soil - Concrete - Aggregate - Asphalt - In-Situ - Masonry and Mortar
Amiri Engineering Corporation has been validated by US Army Corps of Engineers to perform certain field and laboratory tests on asphalt, concrete, soils and aggregate. For a listing of those tests procedures please CLICK HERE.
Construction Materials Testing services offered by Amiri Engineering Corporation are as follows:
- Earthwork observation/testing
- Concrete Testing Services
- Asphalt Testing
- Steel inspection and testing
- Masonry testing
- Sprayed fireproofing testing
- Post tension stressing monitoring
- Load tests for shallow and deep foundations
- Nuclear density test on asphalt, soil and aggregate density and moisture determination
- Soil
- Concrete
- Aggregate
- Asphalt
- In-situ
- Masonry & Mortar
Soil
- Atterberg limits determination
- CBR testing
- Moisture density relationship determination (standard and modified proctor methods)
- Permeability test
- Porosity
- Compressive strength determination
- Specific gravity determination
- Shrinkage limit
- Sieve analysis
- Swell pressure
- Torvane or pocket penetrometer test
Concrete
- Compression test on cored specimens
- Compression test on concrete cylinder
- Compression test, lightweight insulating concrete
- Flexural strength, concrete beam
- Laboratory trial batch
- Specific gravity and voids in hardened concrete
- Splitting tensile strength test
- Unit weight of hardened concrete cylinders
Aggregate
- Absorption, coarse aggregate
- Absorption, fine aggregate
- Aggregate moisture content
- Clay lumps and friable particles
- Effects of organic impurities
- Fractured pieces
- Injurious organic matter
- Lightweight pieces in aggregate
- Sieve analysis
- Specific Gravity
- Unit weight determination
Asphalt
- Asphalt mix design
- Extraction, % Bitumen and aggregate gradation
- Marshall stability and flow
- Unit weight of asphalt core or compacted sample
In-Situ
- Asphalt and concrete coring
- Metalliscanner
Masonry and Mortar
- Absorption and, as received moisture, Masonry block units
- Compression test
- Prism compressive strength
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