Concrete, the final product of building and backbone of construction, is prepared by combining cement, fly ash, aggregates, water, and chemical admixtures to create a material that is both strong and durable. However, to ensure that concrete structures remain safe and effective, it is essential to perform comprehensive testing. Eurofins Spectro offers a wide range of concrete and its raw material testing services designed to evaluate the strength, durability, and overall quality of concrete, whether for new construction, maintenance, or repair projects.

Why Perform Concrete Testing?

Concrete testing is crucial for several reasons:

Ensure Structural Integrity: Regular testing helps verify that the concrete used in construction meets the required standards for strength and durability.

Compliance with Standards: Testing ensures compliance with national and international standards, providing peace of mind that your structure is built to last.

Identify Potential Issues: Early detection of potential weaknesses or flaws in concrete can prevent costly repairs and ensure the safety of the structure.

Optimize Mix Design: Testing can help in refining the concrete mix design to achieve the desired properties, saving time and resources in the long run.

Services Provided

Eurofins Spectro offers a comprehensive suite of concrete testing services, including but not limited to:

Special Services:

We provide mix design up to M-100, and DLC, PQC, SCC, High strength concrete.

Testing Services

Cements Analysis: Evaluating the composition and quality of the cement used in concrete.

Pozzolanic material (Fly ash, GGBS, Silica fumes): Quality of material as per national and international standard.

Rapid Chloride Penetration test: To Evaluate the effect of chloride on concrete and measuring the chloride levels to assess the risk of corrosion in reinforced concrete.

Chloride Permeability and Ponding: Testing for the penetration of chloride ions, which can affect the durability of concrete.

Thermal conductivity: To ensure the thermal resistance of various product. (AAC Block, concrete block.)

NDT of concrete:  Determining the strength of concrete cores extracted from the structure.

Extraction of cores in various diameters (10 cm and 15cm) for testing and high standard surface preparation facility.

 Compressive Strength: Testing the compressive strength of concrete up to M-150 concrete grade with precious automatic compressive testing machine with proper environment condition to ensure it meets design specifications.

Flexural strength, MOE, MOR, Breaking strength: Different Zigs are available to determine flexural strength of concrete, mortar, cement, stone, tile, Paver block.

Depth of Carbonation: Measuring the carbonation depth, which can impact the durability of reinforced concrete.

Drying Shrinkage/Wetting Expansion: Assessing the dimensional changes in concrete, AAC block, Fly ash brick under different moisture conditions.

Skid and Slip resistance: A unique test that is measured by British pendulum number. (For Tiles, stones)

Accelerated Mortar bar testing of Aggregate: To evaluate alkali aggregate reactivity of aggregate with cement as per national and international standard.

Self-healing test facility: New method developed (SOP) for evaluating self- healing of concrete in concrete using Crystalline waterproofing admixture.

Concrete durability test: Water absorption, ISAT, Water permeability, RCPT facility, chloride migration, Chloride diffusion.

Stone & Tile Testing: Modern equipment for stone and tile testing as per national and international standard.

Gypsum Board Test: A completely new generation test facility of Gypsum board as per latest Indian standard. (A-type, H-1 type, R1&R2 type, Type -D, Type-F etc)

Tile Adhesives and jointing Mortar: Finish product required to verify, and we have with standard facility to perform.

Hammer Sounding: A non-destructive test to assess the condition of concrete surfaces.

Porosity and Water Absorption: Measuring the porosity and water absorption levels, which can influence the durability of concrete.

Rebound Hammer Survey: A quick, non-destructive test to estimate the compressive strength of concrete.

Sulphate Content: Determining the sulphate levels, which can impact the long-term durability of concrete.

Ultrasonic Survey: A non-destructive test to assess the internal structure and integrity of concrete.

Depth of Water Penetration (Permeability test): Testing the depth and rate of water penetration into concrete @ 5 bar and 16 bar, an important factor in assessing its durability.

Bitumen Testing and Job mix: As per MoRth Specification.

Chemical Admixture: All types of chemical admixture testing facility.

Wood and Plywood, gypsum, Paver block, cover block, concrete block, cement fibre board, MDF board testing facility are also available here.