MATERIALS TESTING
Associated Engineers materials testing and evaluation services involve directing, planning and implementing aspects of complex engineering projects related to the utilization of various construction materials and products. AEI offers in-house comprehensive geological studies and laboratory testing that may be conducted to determine properties of proposed materials in new construction projects, establish properties in existing structures or to investigate material failure and performance problems. AEI offers materials testing to access chemical and composite properties and to evaluate material response when subjected to various loading and geotechnical construction situations. Field subsurface testing and material testing is essential in producing safe and productive practices without excess and unnecessary expenditures.
- CONCRETE:
- Slump, Air Content, Temperature and Unit Weight
- Monitoring Concrete Placement
- Casting Test Specimens
- Compressive and Flexural Strength Tests
- Rock/Aggregate Gradation Analysis
- Concrete Coring
- Shrinkage
- Chloride Ion Content and Permeability
- Alkali-silica Reactivity
- MASONRY:
- Compressive and Flexural Strength Testing
- Casting Cylinder and Prisms
- Unit Weight/Specific Gravity
- Coring/Sawing Specimens
- Masonry Reinforcement
- Monitoring Masonry Construction
- Permeability
- Volume Stability
- SOIL & AGGREGATES:
- Soil Classification
- Corrosion Analysis
- Nuclear and Sand Cone Moisture/Density (Troxler Nuclear Gauges)
- Moisture/Density Relation of Soil (Proctor Tests)
- Field Bearing Capacity Tests (Static and Dynamic Cone Penetrometers)
- Monitoring Engineered Fill Placement
- Grain-size Distribution (Sieve and hydrometer)
- Direct Shear
- Permeability
- pH
- STEEL:
- Visual Weld Testing
- Ultrasonic Testing
- Paint Thickness
- Corrosion Identification
- Mechanical Properties
