Capability
Many of the following procedures we offer are UKAS-accredited. See our UKAS schedule for details.
Aggregates
- Sampling
- PSD - sieving method
- Particle shape - flakiness index
- Resistance to fragmentation - Los Angeles Method
- Water content - oven drying method
- Particle Density and Water Absorption - 4-31.5mm and 0.063-4mm methods
- Magnesium Sulphate Tests
- Ten percent fines (dry / soaked)
Concrete - fresh
- Sampling fresh concrete (spot / and composite samples)
- Slump test
- Making an curing test cubes
- Air Content
Concrete - hardened
- Curing
- Compressive strength of cubes
- Density
Soils & Earthworks
- Moisture content - oven drying method
- Liquid limit - cone penetrometer / fall cone
- Plastic limit
- Plasticity index
- Particle density - gas jar
- Particle size distribution - wet sieving
- Particle size distribution - dry sieving
- Particle size distribution - sedimentation, hydrometer method
- Dry density / moisture content relationship (2.5kg/4.5kg rammer and vibrating hammer
- Moisture Condition Value (MCV) - in laboratory and on site
- MCV / moisture content relationship
- California Bearing Ration (CBR)
- Swelling of soaked CBR specimen
- Undrained shear strength - triaxial compression without measurement of pore pressure
- In-situ density - core cutter method
- In-situ density - nuclear method
- In-situ density - sand replacement method
- In-situ CBR
- Incremental plate bearing test
- Equivalent CBR value by plate bearing test
- Determination of degree of pulverization