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List of laboratory equipments required in the
field laboratory
Test Procedures of Soils Lab
1. Liquid Limit test
2. Plastic Limit test
3. Grain size Analysis
4. Standard Proctor Density test
5. Modified Proctor Density test
6. CBR
7. Field Density test
8. Relative Density test
9. Shear strength test
10. Consolidation test
11. Subsurface Investigation
12. Bearing Capacity of Shallow foundation
13. Settlement of foundation
14. Design of High Embankment
15. Benkelman Beam Deflection
16. Pile Load Test
Test Procedures of Bitumen Lab
Tests on Aggregate material
A.01. Determination of Deleterious material and
Organic impurities
A.1.1. Determination of Clay lumps
A.1.2. Determination of Soft Light Weight pieces
A.1.3. Determination of Soft particles
A.1.4. Estimation of Organic impurities
A.02. Sieve Analysis
A.03. Specific gravity and Water absorption
A.04. Determination of Flakiness Index
A.05. Determination of Aggregate Impact value
A.06. Determination of Los Angeles Abrasion value
A.07. Determination of Stripping value
A.08. Determination of Soundness value
A.09. Determination of Aggregate Crushing value
A.10. Physical requirement of aggregate for various
works
Tests on Bitumen material
B.1. Penetration test
B.2. Ductility test
B.3. Softening point test
B.4. Viscosity test

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B.5 Flash and Fire point test
B.6 Determination of Water content
B.7 Requirements on Bituminous samples
B.8 Prime coat
B.9 Tack coat
Tests on Bituminous Pavements
C.1 Tests for control of rate of spread of Binder
C.2 Test for check of rate of spread of grit in surface
dressing
C.3 Determination of Binder content
C.4 Test for checking surface regularity using a
Straight edge and Wedge
C.5 Reference to specifications for bituminous
surfaces and hints on compaction of bituminous
courses
C.6 Permitted tolerances of surface regularity for
pavement courses
C.7 Q.C tests to be carried out on bituminous courses
Test procedures for Concrete Lab
Cement Tests
1. Consistency
2. Initial and Final setting time
3. Soundness
4. Fineness
5. Slump test
6. Casting Cubes
7. Non destructive method of Testing of Concrete
Pulse velocity test (PUNDIT)
8. Impact value
9. Crushing value
10. Tests on Steel rods
11. Los Angeles Abrasion value of Aggregate
12. Sieve analysis of Fine aggregate
13. Sieve analysis of Coarse aggregate
Traffic Lab
1. Traffic volume studies
2. Speed studies
3. Origin and Destination studies
4. Riding quality tests on road surfaces
5. Axle load study

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