Materials Testing Services

NC License No. C-0205


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Carolina Engineers, PA offers concrete & aggregate testing and soils & rock testing services. Concrete & aggregate testing includes, but is not limited to concrete slump, air content & temperature, casting cylinders, lab curing, and the breaking of cylinders and beams.

These concrete & aggregate services are conducted in compliance with:

  • ASTM C29/C29M - Test Method for Bulk Density ("Unit Weight") and Voids in Aggregate
  • ASTM C31 - Practice for Making and Curing Concrete Test Specimens in the Field
  • ASTM C33 - Standard Specification for Concrete Aggregates
  • ASTM C39 - Test Method for Compressive Strength of Cylindrical Concrete Specimens
  • ASTM C117 - Test Method for Materials Finer than 75-µm (No. 200) Sieve in Mineral Aggregates by Washing
  • ASTM C136 - Test Method for Sieve Analysis of Fine and Coarse Aggregates
  • ASTM C138 - Test Method for Unit Weight, Yield, and Air Content (Gravimetric) of Concrete
  • ASTM C143 - Test Method for Slump of Hydraulic Cement Concrete
  • ASTM C172 - Practice for Sampling Freshly Mixed Concrete
  • ASTM C173 - Test Method for Air Content of Freshly Mixed Concrete by the Volumetric Method
  • ASTM C231 - Test Method for Air Content of Freshly Mixed Concrete by the Pressure Method
  • ASTM C232 - Test Methods for Bleeding Concrete
  • ASTM C293 - Test Method for Flexural Strength of Concrete (Using Simple Beam with Center-Point Loading)
  • ASTM C566 - Test Method for Total Evaporable Moisture Content of Aggregate by Drying
  • ASTM C617 - Practice for Capping Cylindrical Concrete Specimens
  • ASTM C1064 - Test Method for Temperature of Freshly Mixed Portland Cement Concrete

Soil & rock testing includes, but is not limited to standard & modified proctors, sieve analysis, soil classification, field moisture/density, and dynamic field penetrometer.

These soil & rock services are conducted in compliance with:

  • AASHTO T99/T180 - Test Method for Moisture-Density Relations of Soils
  • ASTM D422 - Test Method for Particle-Size Analysis of Soils
  • ASTM D698 - Test Method for Laboratory Compaction Characteristics of Soil Using Standard Effort
  • ASTM D1140 - Test Method for Amount of Material in Soils Finer than the No. 200 Sieve
  • ASTM D1556 - Test Method for Density and Unit Weight of Soil In-Place by the Sand Cone Method
  • ASTM D1557 - Test Method for Laboratory Compaction Characteristics of Soil Using Modified Effort
  • ASTM D2216 - Test Method for Laboratory Determination of Water (Moisture) Content of Soil and Rock by Mass
  • ASTM D2488 - Standard Practice for Description and Identification of Soils (Visual-Manual Procedure)
  • ASTM D2922 - Test Method for Density of Soil and Soil-Aggregate In-Place by Nuclear Methods (Shallow Depths)
  • ASTM D2937 - Test Method for Density of Soil In-Place by the Drive Cylinder Method
  • ASTM D3017 - Test Method for Water Content of Soil and Rock In-Place by Nuclear Methods (Shallow Depth)
  • ASTM 4318 - Test Methods for Liquid Limit, Plastic Limit, and Plasticity Index of Soils (Atterberg Limits)
  • ASTM D 4643 - Test Method for Determination of Water (Moisture) Content of Soil by the Microwave Oven Heating
  • ASTM STP399 - Dynamic Cone for Shallow In-Situ Penetration Testing
2500 Hwy 70 East | PO Box 1595 | New Bern, NC 28562
Tele: (252) 633-2424 | Fax: (252) 633-1370

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