Aggregate testing is done to ensure the quality of the concrete and aggregate is in compliance with regulations and quality control standards. Aggregate testing is also necessary to determine if a particular aggregate is the right choice to use for creating a construction product. The aggregate being considered then gets evaluated on size, texture, resistance to chemicals, and resistance to climate.
Aggregates are materials or structures formed out of loosely packed particles or fragments of another material, usually something similar to sand, gravel, or crushed stone.
Aggregate Testing and Research Services
Contract Laboratory can help you with all your Aggregate testing, analysis, scientific research and development, inspection, certification, engineering, failure investigation, and product development needs including:
Abrasion
Compression
Gradation
Volume
Particle Size Distribution
Triaxial Resilient Modulus
Sand Equivalent
Flat Particle
Elongated Particle
Fine Aggregate Angularity (FAA)
Specific Gravity
Coarse Aggregate Angularity (CAA)
Flexural Strength
Toughness
Compressive Strength
Water Absorption
Permeable Voids
Type of Aggregate Products
Contract Laboratory can assist your company, academic institution, government agency or organization in outsourcing contract laboratories to perform testing, analysis, and product development for many Aggregate finished products, processes, systems, in-process materials, raw materials and components such as:
Concrete
Cement
Tarmac
Limestone
Basalt Rock
Clay
Pumice
Perlite
Vermiculite
Bedrock
Granite
Marble
Slag
Concrete Masonry
Pavement
Aggregate Test Methods and Standards
Contract Laboratory can help with testing, analysis, assays, evaluations, examinations, inspections and certifications to different Aggregate test methods, standards, procedures or specifications.
AS 1141 - Methods for sampling and testing aggregates, Method 26: Secondary minerals content in igneous rocks
AS 2758 - Aggregates and rock for engineering purposes, Part 6: Guidelines for the specification of armourstone
AS 1141.32 - Methods for sampling and testing aggregates, Method 32: Weak particles (including clay lumps, soft and friable particles) in coarse aggregates
AS 1141.11 - Methods for sampling and testing aggregates, Method 11.2: Particle size distribution for vision sizing systems
AS 1141.22 - Methods for sampling and testing aggregates, Method 22: Wet/dry strength variation
AS 1141.52 - Methods for sampling and testing aggregates, Method 52: Unconfined cohesion of compacted pavement materials
AS 1141.15 - Methods for sampling and testing aggregates, Method 15: Flakiness index
AS 1141.25 - Methods for sampling and testing aggregates, Part 25.1: Degradation factor - Source rock
AS 1141 - Methods for sampling and testing aggregates, Method 35: Detection of sugar contamination in concrete aggregates
ASTM D6155-19 - Standard Specification for Nontraditional Coarse Aggregates for Asphalt Paving Mixtures
ASTM D242 - Standard Specification for Mineral Filler for Asphalt Mixtures
ASTM D692 - Standard Specification for Coarse Aggregate for Asphalt Paving Mixtures
ASTM D5106-22 - Standard Specification for Steel Slag Aggregates for Asphalt Paving Mixtures