Material Testing

Field Test and Sampling for Soil: In MR Engineering we provide the following field tests for soil and asphalt:

  • Field density and moisture content determination for soil and asphalt by nuclear densometer
  • Visual soil classification
  • Pocket Penetrometer Test
  • Drilling and disturbed sampling
  • Standard Penetration Test (SPT)
  • Cone Penetration Test (CPT)
  • Field vane test
  • Coring and core sampling
  • Test pitting and block sampling
  • Shelby tube sampling
  • Sand cone test
  • California Bearing Ratio (CBR)

Laboratory Test for Soil: Our experienced laboratory staffs provide the following laboratory tests for soil and asphalt:

  • Moisture content test
  • Organic content test
  • Atterberg limit tests (plastic limit and liquid limit)
  • Sieve analysis
  • Hydrometer test
  • Specific gravity
  • Unified and AASHTO classification
  • Soluble sulphate test
  • Compaction tests (standard and modified Proctor)
  • Consolidation test
  • Swelling, shrinkage, and collapsing potential tests
  • California Bearing Ratio (CBR)

Field Test and Sampling for Concrete: We provide the following field tests for fresh concrete, grout, mortar and shotcrete:

  • Air content of fresh concrete
  • Slump of fresh concrete
  • Density of fresh concrete
  • Consistency of grout
  • Concrete coring and core sampling
  • Preparation and curing of cylindrical, and beam samples for concrete
  • Preparation and curing of cube mold for grout and mortar
  • Concrete mix design and review
  • Concrete Strength Non-destructive Test (NDT)
  • Locate Concrete Rebar
  • Construction monitoring

Laboratory Test for Concrete: We provide the following laboratory tests for hardened concrete, grout, mortar and shotcrete:

  • Compressive strength of concrete cylinders (3" by 6", 4" by 8", and 6" by 12") and cubes
  • Tensile strength of concrete cylinders
  • Creep test
  • Schmidt hammer test
  • Density