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Minneapolis/St. Paul Regional Office:
6588 141st Ave NW
Ramsey, MN 55303
Phone: 763-433-9175
Fax: 763-323-4739
 

Fargo/Moorhead
Regional Office:
3522 4th Ave S
Fargo, ND 58103
Phone: 701-232-1822
Fax: 701-232-1864
  
Grand Forks:
830 South 48th St
Grand Forks, ND 58201-3871
Phone: 701-219-0920
Fax: 701-775-3774
 
 
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· Construction Materials Testing
 

   
 
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Northern Technologies, Inc. provides comprehensive material testing services to monitor quality control on your construction project. These services include laboratory and field testing of soil, concrete, masonry, asphalt, aggregate, and building stone materials.

Our technicians and engineers are certified and experienced in various types of construction materials testing.

Special inspections
• Concrete
• Reinforcing steel
• Masonry/Mortar
• Structural steel/High strength bolting
• Fireproofing

Structural steel
• AWS welding inspections
• Bolt torque
• Nondestructive testing of welds

Soil testing
• Nuclear and sand cone moisture/density
• Moisture/density relation of soil (Proctor)
• Sieve analysis
• Topsoil analysis
• Monitoring of engineered fill placement
• Compaction testing
• Asphalt testing
• Extraction/gradation analysis
• Marshall properties
• Field process control testing
• Thickness and in-place density by core removal
• Mix vertification

Concrete testing

• Monitoring concrete placement
• Documenting plastic concrete properties including slump, air content, temperature and unit weight
• Casting specified test specimens
• Strength tests of hardened concrete specimens

 

Masonry testing
• Physical properties of masonry units (brick block, retaining wall & building stone)
• Block prism compression and bond strength
• Brick prism bond and flexural strength
• Sampling and testing of grout and mortar

Specialized concrete testing and analysis
• Performance testing—freeze-thaw, shrinkage and soundness
• Location of embedded reinforcing steel
• Core removal from hardened concrete
• Chloride ion concentration

Aggregate testing
• Sieve analysis
• Deleterious materials (ASTM)
• Specific gravity and absorption
• Abrasion
• Soundness
• Unit weight

• Crushing
  
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