Douglas Partners can provide aggregate testing for quarry production and quality assurance conformance to a range of specifications for pavement gravels, drainage materials, asphalt materials and concrete mixes.
We can undertake testing for size, shape, durability, strength, density and chemical.
Services offered include:
- Sampling
- Sieve Analysis
- Average Least Dimension
- Clay & Fine Silt Content
- Flakiness Index
- Fractured Faces
- Friable Particles
- Los Angeles Abrasion Value
- Material Finer than 75µm
- Maximum Dry Compressive Strength
- Organic Impurities Other than Sugar
- Particle Shape (proportional caliper)
- Particle Density and Water Absorption
- Sodium Sulfate Soundness
- Weak Particles
- Organic Impurities Other than Sugar
- Unit Mass (loose + compacted)
- Bulk Density
- Wet / Dry Strength Variation
- Aggregate Crushing Value
- Slake Durability
