CE312

Construction Materials
and Testing
by: CE Faculty
Week 2
Familiarization with
apparatus & equipment
used in testing of
materials
 Familiarization with apparatus & equipment used in testing of materials

Why Is it Important to Be Familiar

With Laboratory Apparatus &
Their Uses?
 Familiarization with apparatus & equipment used in testing of materials

Why Is it Important to Be Familiar With Laboratory Apparatus

& Their Uses?

When Field Testing indicates further study is needed

Laboratory Testing is the next step!

 Familiarization with apparatus & equipment used in testing of materials

Why Is it Important to Be Familiar With Laboratory Apparatus

& Their Uses?

Construction materials testing laboratories are equipped with

Costly Sensitive

laboratory equipment and apparatus!

 Familiarization with apparatus & equipment used in testing of materials

Why Is it Important to Be Familiar With Laboratory Apparatus

& Their Uses?

delay in testing of construction

materials

Unable to hit the turn-over date

Result Increase the project cost
 Familiarization with apparatus & equipment used in testing of materials

Why Is it Important to Be Familiar With Laboratory Apparatus

& Their Uses?

Construction material testing is critical for the viability and

safety of a construction project. Hence,

1. It can reveal any number of issues related to

construction quality.
2. It can highlight future risks, help classify a
building site, and assist with engineering
decisions.
3. Without construction material testing, engineers
and builders may not know if the quality of the
construction meets the requirements.
 Familiarization with apparatus & equipment used in testing of materials

Why Is it Important to Be Familiar With Laboratory Apparatus

& Their Uses?
Before getting indulged with the science instruments or
chemicals, it is quite important to have the accurate information
regarding it.

A. Safe Handling
- laboratory equipment can lead to dangerous side effects and
that is why it is quite important to know how to handle properly.

B. Efficient Use
- Laboratory instruments required the proper knowledge to run or
operate them. If they are not operated in the required way, it will
not be helpful to churn out the desired results.
 Familiarization with apparatus & equipment used in testing of materials

Why Is it Important to Be Familiar With Laboratory Apparatus

& Their Uses?
Before getting indulged with the science instruments or
chemicals, it is quite important to have the accurate information
regarding it.

C. Proper Materials
- Many laboratory machines are designed to study and analyze
samples from a variety of sources. This sample could be organic
or inorganic, vegetable or mineral. Knowing which machine is
for which kind of sample and what the machine is supposed to do
is good for avoiding trouble.
 Familiarization with apparatus & equipment used in testing of materials

Why Is it Important to Be Familiar With Laboratory Apparatus

& Their Uses?
Before getting indulged with the science instruments or
chemicals, it is quite important to have the accurate information
regarding it.

D. Understanding Results
- After inserting the correct materials or calibrating a machine
correctly, you still won't be able to finish your task unless you
understand what it is that the machine has just done. Knowing
which sections of any printouts or displays contain the most vital
information and what that information means is important to
completing the experiment.
 Familiarization with apparatus & equipment used in testing of materials

The Apparatus and Equipment used in testing materials

Civil engineering projects largely depend on the quality of their

materials; therefore testing equipment capable of providing
consumers with accurate and repeatable results is imperative.
While the mechanism in which the equipment performs analysis
procedures varies depending upon the material to be analyzed,
these testing instruments are capable of analyzing the properties
of the materials such as aggregates, soil, concrete, and asphalt.
 Familiarization with apparatus & equipment used in testing of materials

The Apparatus and Equipment used in testing materials

A. Aggregates

1. Laboratory Oven - laboratory 2. Muffle Furnaces - designed

purpose specially designed for drying, for higher temperature heating
baking, conditioning and moisture
determination.
 Familiarization with apparatus & equipment used in testing of materials

The Apparatus and Equipment used in testing materials

A. Aggregates

3. Moisture tester - for accurate 4. Chapman Flask - use for field

moisture reading on site of soil and determination of the amount of
aggregates surface moisture in fine aggregates
 Familiarization with apparatus & equipment used in testing of materials

The Apparatus and Equipment used in testing materials

A. Aggregates

5. Sieves - device for separating 6. Sieve shaker motor -

wanted elements from unwanted operated for sieves when perform
materials or for characterizing the sieving test
particle size distributions of samples
 Familiarization with apparatus & equipment used in testing of materials

The Apparatus and Equipment used in testing materials

A. Aggregates

7. Sample splitters - designed for the 8. Tribometer-abrasion tester -

reduction of test samples which are too used to determine the resistance to
large in volume to be conveniently abrasion and wear of cement, concrete
handled and similar materials
 Familiarization with apparatus & equipment used in testing of materials

The Apparatus and Equipment used in testing materials

A. Aggregates

9. Rock classification hammer - 10. Los Angeles abrasion

used for rock classification test machine - used to determine the
resistance of aggregates by abrasion
 Familiarization with apparatus & equipment used in testing of materials

The Apparatus and Equipment used in testing materials

A. Aggregates

11. Micro-Deval Testing machine - 12. Dry mixer - designed to dry mix
used to determine the quality of materials like powder, cement, gypsum,
aggregates by abrasion and granulometric
 Familiarization with apparatus & equipment used in testing of materials

The Apparatus and Equipment used in testing materials

B. Concrete

1. Core drill - designed to remove a 2. Extruder - to thrust out; force or

cylinder of materials, much like a hole press out
saw
 Familiarization with apparatus & equipment used in testing of materials

The Apparatus and Equipment used in testing materials

B. Concrete

3. Portable rock shear box 4. Climatic chamber - used to test

assembly - used to determine the the effectof specified environmental
strength and slope stability of rock size conditions
 Familiarization with apparatus & equipment used in testing of materials

The Apparatus and Equipment used in testing materials

B. Concrete

5. Rebound hammer - used to 6. High stiffness flexural frame -

assess the uniformity of concrete in situ, designed for displacement controlled
to delineate zones or areas of poor testing on advanced construction
quality or deteriorated concrete in materials, e.g. fiber reinforced concrete
structures (FRC) and sprayed concrete.
 Familiarization with apparatus & equipment used in testing of materials

The Apparatus and Equipment used in testing materials

B. Concrete

7. Specimen grinding machine - 8. Circumferencial extensometers

used to grind and polish rock and - designed for concrete and rock
concrete specimens, natural stones, compression testing or for compression
ceramic materials, etc. tests on other large samples.
 Familiarization with apparatus & equipment used in testing of materials

The Apparatus and Equipment used in testing materials

B. Concrete

9. Universal testing machine 10. concrete slump test - designed

- used to test the tensile strength and to measure the consistency of fresh
compressive strength of materials concrete before it sets.
 Familiarization with apparatus & equipment used in testing of materials

The Apparatus and Equipment used in testing materials

C. Soil

1. Atterberg limit 2. Plastic limit tools - designed to

- designed to measure of the critical measure of the critical water content of
water content of fine-grained soils fine-grained soils
 Familiarization with apparatus & equipment used in testing of materials

The Apparatus and Equipment used in testing materials

C. Soil

3. Shrinkage limit tools- designed to 4. Proctor soil compaction test

evaluates the water content of a soil tools - designed to understand
where further loss of moisture will not compaction characteristics of different
result in an additional volume reduction. soils with change in moisture content.
 Familiarization with apparatus & equipment used in testing of materials

The Apparatus and Equipment used in testing materials

C. Soil

5. Spatula- designed for mixing, lifting, 6. Soil hydrometer - measure

and handling powders, granular suspended solids during testing
materials, and other solids, as well as for
stirring or mixing liquids and other wet
products.
 Familiarization with apparatus & equipment used in testing of materials

The Apparatus and Equipment used in testing materials

C. Soil

7. Direct shear testing machine - 8. Penetrometer - is adevice to test

used to apply both normal and shear the strength of a material
stress on the specimen
 Familiarization with apparatus & equipment used in testing of materials

The Apparatus and Equipment used in testing materials

C. Soil

9. Permeability - used to determine 10. Consolidation machine -

hydraulic conductivity or flow designed to measure the compressibility
characteristics of water or other of soils.
permeants through soils
References:
ELE International. Available: https://www.ele.com/Department/lab-testing-
equipment

Shied Engineering, Inc. Available: http://info.shieldengineering.com/blog/why-is-

construction-materials-testing-important

The importance of knowing your laboratory instruments. Available:

https://medium.com/@devendramehta/the-importance-of-knowing-your-laboratory-
instruments-46648f7caff1

Why Is it Important to Be Familiar With Laboratory Apparatus & Their Uses?

Available: https://sciencing.com/important-familiar-laboratory-apparatus-uses-
8401290.html

Civil Engineering Materials Testing Equipment. Available:

https://www.azom.com/materials-equipment.aspx?cat=116

Concrete. Available: https://www.controls-group.com/eng/concrete-testing-

equipment/

Soil Testing Equipment for Laboratory Evaluation. Available:

https://www.humboldtmfg.com/soil-lab.html