Materials Engineering & Testing
2MNext’s Materials Testing and Inspection Group offers a wide range of services covering the assessment of materials used in construction such as soils, aggregates, concrete, steel, asphalt, and other materials. Our certified laboratories also provide a comprehensive range of tests to evaluate the characteristics of a wide variety of materials and building components.
- Quality Assurance Monitoring
- Quality Control
- Claims
- Arbitration
- Litigation
- Expert Witness
TESTING GROUPS
SOILS AND AGGREGATES
- soils
- soil cement
- aggregate analyses
- earthwork density control
- mechanical sieve analysis
- plasticity tests (Atterberg limits)
- in-place density (nuclear, drive sleeve, sand cone)
- moisture-density relationships
- bearing ratio tests (LBR, FBV, CBR, etc.)
- organic impurities and corrosion series
- specific gravity and adsorption
- abrasion (L.A. abrasion)
- unit weight and void determination
CONCRETE
- concrete: fresh and hardened
- admixtures
- mortars, screeds, and renders
- plasters and tiles
- mix design and proportion analysis
- masonry and mortar
- precast element inspections
- prestressed inspections
- petrographic analyses
- concrete batch plant inspections
- tensile/compressive strength tests
- flexural strength
- water permeability
- Pundit testing
- corrosion testing
- defect analysis
- workmanship
- cover and depth of carbonation
- cracking, delamination, spalling
- deterioration of structures and finishes
- compliance with standards and specifications
- dampness, water penetration, condensation
BITUMINOUS MATERIALS
- asphalt roadway or paving monitoring
- asphalt batch plant inspections
- asphaltic concrete design
- Marshall pills, flow, viscosity
- extraction gradation
- mechanical analysis
- straightedge measurements
- core density
- pavement management systems
STEEL
- reinforcing steel
- weld inspections
- steel fabrication and erection inspection
- bolted connections, torque tests
MISCELLANEOUS
- non-destructive testing
- geophysical site reconnaissance
- roofing materials
- structural foundations
- pavement and roadway evaluations
- geosynthetic laydown monitoring
- vibration monitoring and damage evaluation
- pond liner installation monitoring