Materials Engineering & Testing
2MNEXT’s Materials Testing and Inspection Group provides comprehensive construction materials testing and inspection services for soils, aggregates, concrete, steel, asphalt, and other construction materials.
Our laboratories operate under AASHTO accreditation and CCRL inspection programs, supporting quality assurance and quality control through testing performed in accordance with applicable ASTM, AASHTO, ACI, and project-specific standards. Our laboratory operations also maintain documented equipment calibration procedures to support accurate, reliable testing results.
- Quality Assurance Monitoring
- Quality Control
- Claims
- Arbitration
- Litigation
- Expert Witness
TESTING GROUPS
SOILS AND AGGREGATES
- soils
- soil cement
- aggregate analyses
- earthwork density control
- mechanical sieve analysis
- plasticity tests (Atterberg limits)
- in-place density (nuclear, drive sleeve, sand cone)
- moisture-density relationships
- bearing ratio tests (LBR, FBV, CBR, etc.)
- organic impurities and corrosion series
- specific gravity and adsorption
- abrasion (L.A. abrasion)
- unit weight and void determination
CONCRETE
- concrete: fresh and hardened
- admixtures
- mortars, screeds, and renders
- plasters and tiles
- mix design and proportion analysis
- masonry and mortar
- precast element inspections
- prestressed inspections
- petrographic analyses
- concrete batch plant inspections
- tensile/compressive strength tests
- flexural strength
- water permeability
- Pundit testing
- corrosion testing
- defect analysis
- workmanship
- cover and depth of carbonation
- cracking, delamination, spalling
- deterioration of structures and finishes
- compliance with standards and specifications
- dampness, water penetration, condensation
BITUMINOUS MATERIALS
- asphalt roadway or paving monitoring
- asphalt batch plant inspections
- asphaltic concrete design
- Marshall pills, flow, viscosity
- extraction gradation
- mechanical analysis
- straightedge measurements
- core density
- pavement management systems
STEEL
- reinforcing steel
- weld inspections
- steel fabrication and erection inspection
- bolted connections, torque tests
MISCELLANEOUS
- non-destructive testing
- geophysical site reconnaissance
- roofing materials
- structural foundations
- pavement and roadway evaluations
- geosynthetic laydown monitoring
- vibration monitoring and damage evaluation
- pond liner installation monitoring