Materials Testing Services
Alpha Adroit's advanced materials testing centers provide materials testing (such as concrete testing and grout testing) and materials engineering services for accurate determination of representative in-situ material properties, building materials design, proper selection and quality control of construction materials (as part of construction quality control services or geotechnical engineering field review), and their compliance with design and engineering specifications, including:
- Conducting standard, advanced, and custom-designed field and laboratory tests on soil, concrete, rock, aggregate, asphalt, and waste materials per ASTM, CSA, AASHTO, BS, DIN, ASME, GOST, ACI, ISO, Alberta Transportation/Infrastructures Specifications, City of Edmonton Specifications, and City of Calgary Specifications
- Laboratory testing, field testing, testing review, interpretation of test results, development of technical specifications, and mix design for Portland cement concrete, grout (including Sika grout), mortar, shotcrete, plastic concrete, soil-cement, lime-treated soil, fly-ash treated soil, RCC (Roller Compacted Concrete), zero-slump concrete, light-weight concrete fills, and recycled materials
We provide construction Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC) for concrete construction, earthworks, and other geo-constructions to ensure the construction procedures and materials conform to the design specifications and engineering assumptions, as well as, to the proper construction practices. Some examples include:
- Inspection and materials testing services for utility line placement, site grading, and construction of embankments, engineered fills, excavations, and retaining walls
- Monitoring, inspection (pile inspection), and materials testing services for driving of steel piles and construction of concrete shafts, caissons, belled piles, Compacto piles, CFA piles, footings, and mat foundations
- Rebar and form inspection and materials testing services for fresh and cured concrete for reinforced concrete constructions
- Soil testing and proof rolling inspection for pavements and sub-grades
- Soil compaction testing using nuclear density gauge (densometer) for sub-grades, site grading, engineered fills, and structural fills
- Concrete testing services for structural concrete, plastic concrete, zero-slump concrete, light-weight concrete, grout concrete, Sika grout, cementitious grout, non-shrink grout, shotcrete, roller-compacted concrete (RCC), cementitious materials, and asphalt concrete materials
- Materials engineering and design, lab tests, research, interpretation of test results, and development of technical knowledge databases for new engineering materials
- Materials testing for Forensic Geotechnical Engineering applications (failure investigation, expert witness, remedial and repair engineering)
- Total Quality Management (TQM) and Registered Professional Engineer of Record Services for design review and field review of geotechnical engineering and construction materials testing aspects of building projects in compliance with Alberta Building Code (ABC), National Building Code of Canada (NBCC), and International Building Code (IBC)
As a minimum, Alpha Adroit Engineering Ltd complies with the following standards as necessary:
- ASTM D3740 — Standard Practice for Minimum Requirements for Agencies Engaged in Testing and/or Inspection of Soil and Rock as Used in Engineering Design and Construction
- ASTM E329 — Standard Specification for Agencies Engaged in Construction Inspection, Testing, or Special Inspection
- CSA A283-06 — Qualification Code for Concrete Testing Laboratories
— Call us Toll-Free: 1-844-4-ADROIT (1-844-4-237648) or please contact us here for more information (for Materials Testing Services in Alberta, please contact 780-708-4110).
The below list provides a summary of our materials testing and construction quality control services (click each item to expand):
- Visual classification
- Pocket Penetrometer test
- Drilling and disturbed sampling
- Coring and core sampling
- Test pitting and block sampling
- Shelby tube sampling
- Osterberg tube sampling
- Standard Penetration Test (SPT)
- Cone Penetration Test (CPT)
- Seismic Cone Penetration Test with pore-water pressure measurement (SCPTu)
- Self-boring and Pre-bored Pressure-meter Test (PMT, sPMT)
- Field vane test
- Dilatometer test
- Slug test
- Nuclear field density and moisture content determination for soil compaction testing, asphalt testing, and concrete testing in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Yukon, Nunavut, and Northwest Territories in Canada.
- Sand cone test
- California Bearing Ratio (CBR)
- Plate Load Test (PLT)
- Field soil resistivity test (soil electrical resistivity and soil electrical conductivity)
- Field soil corrosivity (corrosion potential)
- Field hydraulic conductivity test
- Moisture content test
- Organic content test
- Atterberg limit tests (Plastic Limit and Liquid Limit)
- Sieve analysis
- Hydrometer test
- Hydraulic conductivity test (un-disturbed samples, re-compacted samples, remolded samples)
- Hydraulic conductivity test for landfill applications
- Specific gravity
- Soil Compaction tests (standard and modified Proctor)
- Consolidation test
- Swelling, shrinkage, and collapsing potential tests
- Direct shear test
- Unified and AASHTO classification
- Soluble sulfate test
- Laboratory soil and aggregate resistivity test (electrical resistivity and conductivity)
- Soil corrosivity (corrosion potential)
- Soil Salinity test
- PH test
- Pinhole test (dispersive clays)
- Soil thermal conductivity test (soil thermal resistivity test)
- Soil thermal diffusivity
- Soil specific heat (soil heat capacity)
- Ring shear test (Alberta)
- Vane shear test
- Unconfined compressive strength test
- Triaxial Tests: unconfined compressive (UC), unconsolidated undrained (UU), consolidated undrained (CU), consolidated drained (CD), dynamic tests with bender element, and special stress path tests
- Soil-water characteristic curves for unsaturated soils
- California Bearing Ratio (CBR)
- Visual classification, mapping of discontinuities, and Rock Quality Indexing such as RQD
- Pocket penetrometer test on soft rocks
- Schmidt hammer test
- Rock anchor pull test (rock anchor adhesion test)
- Rock bolt pull test
- Ultrasonic Testing on Rock including Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity (UPV), Ultrasonic Pulse-Echo (UPE), Ultrasonic Impact-Echo (UIE)
- Ground Penetrating Radar optimized for rock
- Geological Ground Penetrating Radar
- Drilling
- Coring
- Test pitting
- Hydraulic fracturing test
- Seismic Cone Penetration Test with pore-water pressure measurement (SCPTu) in soft rock
- Self-boring and Pre-bored Pressure-meter Test (sPMT and PMT)
- Dilatometer test in soft rock
- Slug Test
- Lugeon test
- Moisture content test
- Density
- Wetting-drying disintegration test
- Atterberg tests for argillaceous rocks
- Thermal conductivity test
- Hydraulic conductivity test
- Direct shear test
- Ring shear test
- Schmidt hammer test
- Unconfined compressive strength (UCS) test
- One dimensional creep and relaxation tests
- Triaxial Tests
- Air content
- Temperatures of fresh concrete and air
- Slump
- Cement content
- Water content
- Density
- Flume test for grout, shotcrete, and mortar
- Preparation and curing of cylindrical, cubic, and beam samples
- Potential Alkali-Silica Reactivity of aggregates
- Aggregate abrasion test (Micro-Deval)
- Mix design and review
- Construction monitoring
- Concrete coring - core sampling
- Compressive strength (UCS) of concrete cylinders (3" by 6", 4" by 8", and 6" by 12") and cubes
- Tensile strength of concrete cylinders (Brazilian test)
- Creep test
- Schmidt hammer test
- Rebar NDT inspection in hardened or aged concrete (rebar location, rebar diameter, the concrete cover thickness of rebar, rebar corrosion, rebar as-built layout, the quantity of reinforcement, rebar aging effects, corrosion contour maps)
- Rebar pull-out test (rebar pull test)
- Anchor pull test
- Ultrasonic Testing on Concrete including Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity (UPV), Ultrasonic Pulse-Echo (UPE), Ultrasonic Impact-Echo (UIE) including also non-homogeneous, reinforced concrete, rebar-congested concrete, concrete with rebar corrosion, aged concrete
- Concrete Penetrating Radar (Ground Penetrating Radar optimized for reinforced concrete) including also non-homogeneous, reinforced concrete, rebar-congested concrete, concrete with rebar corrosion, aged concrete
- Crack and corrosion mapping of deteriorated or damaged concrete for assessing the structural integrity of concrete structures
- Density
- Void percentage
- Hydraulic conductivity test
- Thermal conductivity test
- Direct shear test (interfacial shear between concrete and soil or other construction materials
- Interpretation of Stress-Strain-Time-Temperature relationships at extreme (elevated and cryogenic) temperatures and high pressures
- Triaxial Tests
- Nuclear field density determination
- Asphalt coring and core sampling
- Temperatures of asphalt mix and ambient air
- Construction monitoring
- Mix design and review
- Density
- Moisture content test for emulsified asphalt, petroleum products, oil sand, complex tars, and other bituminous materials by distillation method
- Bitumen content test
- Particle size distribution and Index testing
- Density
- Moisture content test for oil sand, complex tars, tailings, and other bituminous materials by distillation method
- Bitumen content test of soil sands and tailings
- Atterberg limits test on clayey un-treated and treated tailings
- Liquefaction potential
- Turbidity
- TDS (Total dissolved solids)
- Hydrocarbon Contamination
- Metal Contamination
- PCBs (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
- Salinity
- Sterilants
- Chloride
- Sulfates
- Free Chlorine
- Total Chlorine
- Field and lab testing (Aluminum, Ammonia, Barium, Benzotriazole / Tolyltriazole, Boron, Bromine, Chlorine Dioxide, Chromium, Hexavalent, Chromium, Total, COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand), Copper, Cyanide, Cyanuric Acid, Detergents / Surfactants, Dissolved Oxygen, Fluoride, Hardness, Hydrazine, Hydrogen Peroxide, Iron, Manganese, Molybdenum, Monochloramine, Nickel, Nitrate, Nitrite, Nitrogen, Total, Nitrogen, Total Inorganic (TIN), Oxygen Scavengers, Ozone, Phosphonates, Phosphorus, Potassium, Silica, Sulfate, Sulfide / Hydrogen Sulfide, Suspended Solids, Tannin and Lignin, Total Organic Carbon (TOC), Toxicity, Volatile Acids, and Zinc)
- Surface water quality testing and monitoring (specific conductivity, dissolved oxygen, pH, temperature, ORP, turbidity, TDS, Ammonium, Nitrate, Chloride, Hydrocarbon, and VOC) for lake, stream and wetland monitoring, dam monitoring, remediation and mine water monitoring, and other applications
Alpha Adroit's Alberta Materials Testing lab in Edmonton is one of the most advanced laboratories in Western Canada for soils and concrete testing. We provide our materials testing and materials engineering services throughout Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan. We also offer services in international locations directed through our headquarters office in Edmonton, Alberta. Major cities include Edmonton, Calgary, Red Deer, Fort McMurray (AB— Alberta), Vancouver (BC— British Columbia), and Saskatoon (SK— Saskatchewan). Alpha Adroit offers services to international locations (particularly the Middle East) through its headquarters and advanced laboratories in Edmonton, Alberta. Projects in Alaska, Iceland, Greenland, Yukon, Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Manitoba, Newfoundland, and Labrador would be considered based on the project's merits and Alpha Adroit's unique advantages. Service requests for Materials Testing Edmontondirect here.