Materials Testing

With over 5,000 sf of laboratory space, they house one of the largest construction materials testing laboratories in California. The laboratory has a sample receiving area consisting of 1000 sf and a sample storage area of 1500 sf. It is equipped with a moist curing room, a fume hood, compressed air, de-ionized water, and other general utilities required for a certified facility. 

Mobile Laboratory 

TQF owns self-sufficient and customizable mobile laboratories that are available to be mobilized to a job site in hours and arrive at the project site ready to perform testing within minutes.

Our mobile labs are fully equipped with internal power and water and are capable of being moved to various locations throughout the duration of a project to maximize their efficiency. 

With the large amount of construction-related, time-sensitive work that TQF performs, our laboratories understand the importance of effectively accomplishing efficient turnaround for testing.

  • Concrete testing

  • Masonry Testing

  • Aggregate Testing

  • Bituminous Pavement Testing

  • Structural & Reinforcing Steel Testing

  • Fireproofing Testing

  • Soil Testing for Geotechnical Engineering Applications

Concrete
  • Moist cabinets, Moist Rooms, and Water Storage Tanks Used In Hydraulic Cements and Concrete

  • Compressive Strength of Lightweight Concrete
  • Making and Curing Test Specimens in Lab/Field Obtaining and Testing Drilled Cores, Saw beams
  • Flexural Strength of Concrete (Third-Point Loading)
  • Slump of Hydraulic Cement

  • Density (Unit Weight), Yield, and Air Content
  • Air Content by Volumetric Method

  • Capping Cylindrical Specimens
  • Temperature of Portland Cement
  • Sampling Freshly mixed concrete
  • Determining Density of Structural Concrete
  • Temperature of Freshly Mixed Portland Concrete
  • Preparing and Testing Specimens from Shotcrete Test Panels
  • Measuring Lenghtn of Concrete Cores
MASONRY
  • Sampling and Testing Masonry Units

  • Linear Drying Shrinkage of Concrete Masonry Unit
  • Moist Cabinets, Moist Rooms, and Water Storage Tanks Used in Hydraulic Cements and Concrete
  • Bituminous Pavement Testing
  • Preconstruction and Construction Evaluation of Mortars – Consistency by Cone

  • Preconstruction and Construction Evaluation of Mortars-Compressive Strength
  • Compressive Strength of Masonry Units, Related

  • Capping Concrete Masonry Units, Related Unites, and Masonry Prisms for Compressing Testing

SOIL
  • Dry Preparation of Disbursed Soil

  • Determining Liquid
  • Moisture – Density Relations
  • Density of Soiling- Place
  • Laboratory Determination of Moisture Content

  • Classification of Soils for Engineering
  • Description and Identification of Soils

  • Expansion Index of Soils
ASPHALT MIXTURE
  • Bulk Specific Gravity of Compacted Hot Mix Asphalt Using Saturated Surface – DrySpecimens (Cores)

  • Bulk Specific Gravity of Compacted Hot Mix Asphalt Using Parrafin-Coated Specimens(Cores)
  • Density of Bituminous Concrete in Pace by Nuclear Methods
AGGREGATE
  • Sampling Aggregate
  • Bulk Density
  • Organic impurities in Fine Aggregates for Concrete
  • Sieve Analysis of Fine and Coarse Aggregates
  • Specific Gravity and Absorption
  • Soundness of Aggregate
  • Total Moisture Content of Drying
  • Organic impurities in Concrete
  • Sieve Analysis of Fine and Coarse Aggregates
  • Reducing samples of Testing Size
  • Aggregate Durability index
  • Plastic Fines in Graded Aggregates and Soil
SPRAYED FIRE-RESISTIVE MATERIALS
  • Thickness and Density of Spray Fire-Resistive Materiais(SFRM) applied to Structural Memebers