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Material Testing

The document discusses several important material testing techniques for concrete, soils, and asphalt. For concrete, it outlines compressive strength testing, slump testing, air content testing, and flexural strength testing. For soils, it lists moisture content determination, specific gravity determination, grain-size analysis, liquid limit testing, plastic limit testing, plasticity index determination, lab compaction testing, in-place density determination using both sand cone and nuclear methods, and CBR testing. For asphalt, it mentions bitumen penetration testing and spot tests. Understanding the basics of these material testing techniques would help in solving related problems on engineering exams.

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Material Testing

The document discusses several important material testing techniques for concrete, soils, and asphalt. For concrete, it outlines compressive strength testing, slump testing, air content testing, and flexural strength testing. For soils, it lists moisture content determination, specific gravity determination, grain-size analysis, liquid limit testing, plastic limit testing, plasticity index determination, lab compaction testing, in-place density determination using both sand cone and nuclear methods, and CBR testing. For asphalt, it mentions bitumen penetration testing and spot tests. Understanding the basics of these material testing techniques would help in solving related problems on engineering exams.

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Material Quality control and production

**Material Testing**
There are a lot of material tests, it would be impossible to go over all of them. However, I will quickly go over the most important as I see it. I would recommend you print out FM-572 : Material Testing, and tab each different test and review the test that I outline below. Most likely on the PE Exam it will ask a word problem about a specific material testing technique. So if you understand the basics of the test you should be able to get the problem correct.

Concrete:
1. 2. 3. 4. Compressive Strength Test (ASTM C 39-96) Slump Test (ASTM C143-90a) Air Content Test (ASTM 231-97) Flexural Strength Test (ASTM C 78-94)

Soils:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Moisture Content Determination (Oven Dry Method) (ASTM D 2216-90) Specific Gravity of solids Determination (ASTM 854-92) Grain-Size Analysis and distribution (ASTM D 422-63) Liquid Limit, Plastic Limit, Plasticity Index Determination (ASTM D 4318-95) Lab Compaction Characteristic (ASTM D 1557-91) In Place Density Determination a. Sand Cone method (ASTM D 1556-90) b. Nuclear Moisture and density tester CBR Tests (ASTM D 1383-94)

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Asphalt (Bituminous Mixtures):


1. 2. Bitumen Testing (Penetration Test (ASTM D 5-86) Spot Tests

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