Services

M & B provides a variety of laboratory and field testing services for concrete, soils, aggregate, and asphalt.

Concrete Testing Services
-Casting test cylinders and flextural beams
-Air content determination
-Slump test
-Compressive strength testing of cylinders, beams, and cores
-Concrete mix design and review
-Testing trial concrete mixes
-Casting and testing mortar cubes
-Aggregate analysis
-Unit weight of fresh concrete
-Density determination of hardened concrete
-Concrete coring

Soils and Aggregate Testing Services
-Grain-size analysis
-Atterberg limits
-Compressive strength of soil
-Visual classification
-Specific gravity and absortption properties
-Unit weight
-Organic content determination
-Surface moisture in fine aggregates
-Los angeles abrasion testing
-Sand equivalent values
-Moisture density relationships (Proctor testing)
-Density testing using nuclear gauges
-Soil/aggregate inspecting (piles, bearing inspections, backfill, etc.)
-Falling head permeability
-Consolidation testing

Asphalt Testing Services
-Asphalt Pavement Evaluation
-Deflection Measurement by Benkelman Beam
-Trial Mix Design by Marshall and Superpave Methods
-Marshall Stability and Flow
-Unit Weight of Asphalt Pavement
-Asphalt Coring
-Bitumen Content by Ignition Oven
-Sieve Analysis of Aggregate
-Voids Filled Determination
-Film Thickness Determination

Inspection Services
-Geotechnical subsurface evaluations
-Pile foundation installation monitoring
-Footing bearing surface inspections
-Reinforcing steel inspections
-Precast concrete inspections
-Fill placement monitoring
-Asphalt and concrete plant inspections
-Frost penetration inspections