Materials for Civil & Construction Engineering Lab

The Materials for Civil & Construction Engineering Lab is equipped to evaluate the performance of common construction materials, including concrete and pavement. 

  • The lab supports the following standard experiments:

    • ASTM C29 - Bulk Density (“Unit Weight”) and Voids in Aggregate
    • ASTM C31 - Making and Curing Concrete Test Specimens in the Field
    • ASTM C39 - Compressive Strength of Cylindrical Concrete Specimens
    • ASTM C78 - Flexural Strength of Concrete (Using Simple Beam with Third-Point Loading)
    • ASTM C109 - Compressive Strength of Hydraulic Cement Mortars
    • ASTM C117 - Materials Finer Than 75-μm (No.200) Sieve in Mineral Aggregates by Washing
    • ASTM C127 - Specific Gravity and Absorption of Coarse Aggregate
    • ASTM C128 - Specific Gravity and Absorption of Fine Aggregate
    • ASTM C136 - Sieve Analysis of Fine and Coarse Aggregates
    • ASTM C138 - Unit Weight, Yield, and Air Content of Concrete
    • ASTM C140 - Sampling and Testing Concrete Masonry Units and Related Units
    • ASTM C143 - Slump of Hydraulic-Cement Concrete
    • ASTM C172 - Sampling Freshly Mixed Concrete
    • ASTM C191 - Setting Time of Hydraulic Cement by Vicat Needle
    • ASTM C231 - Air Content of Freshly Mixed Concrete by the Pressure Method
    • ASTM C305 - Mechanical Mixing of Hydraulic Cement Pastes and Mortars
    • ASTM C469 - Static Modulus of Elasticity in Compression
    • ASTM C496 - Splitting Tensile Strength of Cylindrical Concrete Specimens
    • ASTM C566 - Total Evaporable Moisture Content of Aggregate by Drying
    • ASTM C702 - Reducing Field Samples of Aggregate to Testing Size
    • ASTM C805 - Rebound Number of Hardened Concrete
    • ASTM C1064 - Temperature of Freshly Mixed Portland Cement Concrete
    • ASTM D75 - Sampling Aggregates

Location:
L1 Materials Lab Building,
Located behind the Civil Engineering Technology, Building L 
Room L1-100

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