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From site investigation to engineering design and quality control, GeoTerra provides a variety of services for the Construction Industry.

SERVICES

Aggregates

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The laboratory offers an extensive range of compliance and quality control testing for aggregates used in various construction applications.

Among other tests GeoTerra’s Laboratory Quality Control Department provides testing as:

  • Aggregate abrasion value (AAV)
  • Alkali-carbonate reaction
  • Alkali-silica reaction
  • Carbonate content
  • Clay lumps and friable particles
  • Compatibility between aggregate and bitumen
  • Expansion of steel slag
  • Fulvic acid
  • Grading of fillers
  • Humus content
  • Lightweight contaminators
  • Loss on ignition
  • Organic contaminators by the mortar method
  • Particle density of filler
  • Particle length
  • Percentage of crushed and broken surfaces
  • Petrography
  • Polishing Stone Value (PSV)
  • Rock compressive strength
  • Shell content
  • Thermal resistance shock
  • Water soluble contaminators