Materials Testing

Construction Material Testing Services

• K & S Engineers, Inc. provides testing services for construction materials including Aggregates, Asphalt, Concrete, Soil, and Steel.

  Concrete Testing includes:

  • Slump
  • Air Content
  • Temperature
  • Making and Curing Specimens
  • Mix Design/ Verification/Plant Inspection
  • Compressive Strength of cylinders and cores
  • Mortar Testing for Unit Masonry
  • Rebound Hammer of Hardened Concrete (Swiss-Hammer Test)

  Asphalt testing includes:

  • Thickness Determination
  • Compaction Density
  • Mix Design and Verification
  • Plant Inspection
  • Extraction
  • Asphalt Content
  • Marshal Stability Testing
  • Core Sample Density

  Steel testing includes:

  • Torque
  • Welding
  • Shear Test For Studs

• Soil Testing (AASHTO and ASTM methods) includes the following:
• Grain Size analysis
• Atterberg Limits
• Specific Gravity
• Loss-on Ignition (Organic Content)
• Moisture-Density Relations (Standard/Modified Proctor)
• Hydraulic Conductivity
• Unconfined Compression
• Triaxial Tests (with pore pressure measurements)
• Consolidation
• pH
• California Bearing Ratio (CBR)