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Concrete is a versatile material used in countless applications, but even the best pours can crack. Learn what causes concrete to crack, which cracks are harmless and which are serious, and the steps you can take to track and prevent damage, keeping your concrete strong for years to come.
Concrete maturity testing provides real‑time insight into strength development, helping construction teams make safer, faster decisions. Learn how maturity methods work, how they compare to traditional cylinder testing, and how modern monitoring systems streamline strength estimation.
Through the Federal Highway Administration Mobile Concrete Technology Center, concrete testing, equipment, and educational opportunities are delivered nationwide. Learn more about this mobile concrete lab and its initiatives in our latest blog.
Gilson Guardian makes it possible to track concrete specimens from curing through completion. Learn how one program can enhance your lab's concrete testing programs.
The right Concrete Compression Testing Machine will shape the overall success of your concrete testing. In this guide, we explain the different machines available and how to determine the best option for your lab.
Increase the overall performance of your basic or manual concrete compression testing machine by upgrading to automatic operation with an Automatic Controller Retrofit. Learn more about the benefits of automatic operation and see how easy it is to install a Retrofit to your existing compression machine.
More than a century ago, Duff Abrams established a simple ratio to define the strength, quality, and workability of concrete mixtures. The water to cementitious material (w/cm) ratio is universally used in mixture design and batching, but accurate determinations for on-site acceptance of fresh concrete have remained elusive until now. The Phoenix method provides accurate and repeatable w/cm measurements in the lab or field in minutes.
If surface moisture evaporates from freshly poured concrete too quickly, the concrete surface dries out and plastic shrinkage cracking can occur. Learn how to monitor and mitigate plastic shrinkage for optimum concrete results.
The term construction materials testing sounds like a catch-all term for analyzing everything from nails to doorknobs. However, for the civil engineering industry, it has come to mean the characterization of a handful of things by using specific test methods in a construction materials testing laboratory: concrete, aggregates, asphalt, and soils. This blog will take a high-altitude view of what construction materials are, the most important properties to test for, and the right equipment to get the job done.
While Part 1 of this blog series discussed nondestructive concrete testing methods and equipment, Part 2 will cover equipment used to detect location, orientation, and corrosion of reinforcing steel, the effects of moisture, and how to document concrete quality.
