Laboratory Testing
Hurst-Rosche Engineers, Inc. and its subsidiary, Atlas Soils, Inc.
maintains a fully equipped materials testing laboratory in the Hillsboro,
Illinois office. This laboratory is staffed and managed by an experienced
crew of technicians and engineers who are knowledgeable in testing
to determine strength, consolidation and permeability characteristics
of soil materials and strength characteristics of concrete materials.
Testing is performed in accordance with guidelines established by the
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), American Association
of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO),
Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) or other state
highway department procedures, U.S. Army Corps Engineers, and
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) procedures, when applicable. We
also have a mobile unit described below. |
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Laboratory services include:
- Unconfined Compressive Strength Tests
- Stress or Strain Controlled Triaxial Tests
- Consolidation Tests
- Falling Head or Constant Head Permeability Tests
- Mechanical Analysis
- Atterberg Limits
- Moisture Content
- Standard or Modified Moisture-Density Relationships (Proctor)
- Illinois or California Bearing Ratios
- Organic Content and pH
- Compressive and Flexural Strength of Concrete
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Hurst-Rosche Engineers, Inc. has included into their services a mobile
construction testing unit. With large projects, we now have the capability
to be on the job site as your project is in the construction
process along with our certified technician to test the concrete as well
as test soil samples.
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Mobile Construction Testing Unit |
