Soil testing determines certain properties like minerals, pH, and particle size. Soil and clay testing can also evaluate topsoil, plant suitability, and more.
Soil Testing and Research Services
Contract Laboratory can help you with all your Soil testing, analysis, scientific research and development, inspection, certification, engineering, failure investigation, and product development needs including:
optical examination
mineral identification
chemistry
cementation
Slake Durability
ABA and NAG
nitrate
moisture content
density
gravity
ph
conductivity
strength
salt
organic matter
texture
plasticity
shearing
silkiness
isotopes
Plasticity
in-situ moisture content
in-situ strength
compressive strength
compaction
Bioaccumulation
Carbonate Content
Shrinkage Factors
Damping Properties
Modulus Properties
Accelerated Weathering
Frost Heave Susceptibility
Thaw Weakening
Infiltration Rate
Hydraulic Conductivity Ratio (HCR)
Torsional Ring Shear Testing
Drained Residual Shear Strength
Terrestrial Soil-Core Microcosm Test
Contaminant Sorption
Mechanical Cone Penetration
Filtration Compatibility
Soluble Salt Content
Sand Equivalent Value
Electronic Friction Cone Penetration
Piezocone Penetration
Lime Content
Inorganic Matter Content
Normalized Penetration Resistance
Liquid Limit
Plastic Limit
Plasticity Index
Cation Exchange Capacity
Exchange Complex
California Bearing Ratio
Standard Penetration Test (SPT)
Dispersive Characteristics
Expansion Index
Organic Matter Content
Type of Soil Products
Contract Laboratory can assist your company, academic institution, government agency or organization in outsourcing contract laboratories to perform testing, analysis, and product development for many Soil finished products, processes, systems, in-process materials, raw materials and components such as:
Sand
Clay
Silt
Topsoil
Backfill
Loam
Humus
Peat
Chalk
Lime
Sludge
Biosolids
Calcareous Soils
Fine-Grained Soils
Coarse-Grained Soils
Cohesive Soils
Soil/Geotextile Systems
Cohesive Soils
Soil-Lime Mixtures
Inorganic Soils
Blended Soils
Athletic Field Rootzone Mixes
Soil Test Methods and Standards
Contract Laboratory can help with testing, analysis, assays, evaluations, examinations, inspections and certifications to different Soil test methods, standards, procedures or specifications.
ASTM D2964 - Specification for Natural Nica Films Used in Fixed Capacitors Based on Visual Quality
ASTM ASTM D854 - Standard Test Methods for Specific Gravity of Soil Solids by the Water Displacement Method
ASTM ASTM G187 - Standard Test Method for Measurement of Soil Resistivity Using the Two-Electrode Soil Box Method
ASTM D5334 - Standard Test Method for Determination of Thermal Conductivity of Soil and Rock by Thermal Needle Probe Procedure
AASHTO T291 - Standard Method of Test for Determining Water-Soluble Chloride Ion Content in Soil
AASHTO T290 - Standard Method of Test for Determining Water-Soluble Sulfate Ion Content in Soil pH
ISO 20244 - Soil quality -- Screening method for water content -- Determination by refractometry
EPA 8272 - Parent and Alkyl Polycyclic Aromatics in Sediment Pore Water by Solid-Phase Microextraction and Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry in Selected Ion Monitoring Mode
EPA Method - Soil Screening for Petroleum Hydrocarbons by Immunoassay
EPA 4050 - Method TNT Explosives in Soil by Immunoassay
IEEE 442 - Guide for Thermal Resistivity Measurements of Soils and Backfill Materials
ISO 14235 - Soil quality - Determination of organic carbon by sulfochromic oxidation
ISO 21268 - Soil quality - Leaching procedures for subsequent chemical and ecotoxicological testing of soil and soil-like materials - Part 2: Batch test using a liquid to solid ratio of 10 l/kg dry matter
ASTM 2216 - Standard Test Methods for Laboratory Determination of Water (Moisture) Content of Soil and Rock by Mass
ASTM D2974 - Standard Test Methods for Moisture, Ash, and Organic Matter of Peat and Other Organic Soils
ISO 17183 - Soil quality - Screening soils for isopropanol-extractable organic compounds by determining emulsification index by light attenuation
ISO 16558 - Soil quality - Risk-based petroleum hydrocarbons - Part 1: Determination of aliphatic and aromatic fractions of volatile petroleum hydrocarbons using gas chromatography (static headspace method)
AS 1289 - Methods of testing soils for engineering purposes, Method 4.1.1: Soil chemical tests - Determination of the organic matter content of a soil - Normal method
AS 4439.2 - Wastes, sediments and contaminated soils, Part 2: Preparation of leachates - Zero headspace procedure
AS 4439.2 - Wastes, sediments and contaminated soils, Part 2: Preparation of leachates - Zero headspace procedure
ISO 14388 - Soil quality - Acid-base accounting procedure for acid sulfate soils - Part 3: Suspension peroxide oxidation combined acidity and sulfur (SPOCAS) methodology
ASTM 5831 - Standard Practice for Screening Fuels in Soils
ISO 23743 - Soil quality - Determination of dehydrogenases activity in soils - Part 2: Method using iodotetrazolium chloride (INT)
AASHTO T-311 - Standard Method of Test for Grain-Size Analysis of Granular Soil Materials
AASHTO T 311 - Standard Method of Test for Grain-Size Analysis of Granular Soil Materials
AASHTO T 180 - Standard Method of Test for Moisture-Density Relations of Soils Using a 4.54-kg (10-lb) Rammer and a 457-mm (18-in.) Drop
AASHTO T 90 - Standard Method of Test for Determining the Plastic Limit and Plasticity Index of Soils
IEEE 442 - Thermal Resistivity Measurements of Soils and Backfill Materials
ASTM D1195 - Standard Test Method for Repetitive Static Plate Load Tests of Soils and Flexible Pavement Components, for Use in Evaluation and Design of Airport and Highway Pavements
ASTM D4611 - Standard Test Method for Specific Heat of Rock and Soil
ASTM D7830 - Standard Test Method for In-Place Density (Unit Weight) and Water Content of Soil Using an Electromagnetic Soil Density Gauge
ASTM D4778 - Standard Test Method for Determination of Corrosion and Fouling Tendency of Cooling Water Under Heat Transfer Conditions
ISO 11063 - Soil quality - Direct extraction of soil DNA
ISO 15176:2019 - Guidance on characterization of excavated soil and other materials intended for re-use
ASTM D2974-20e1 - Standard Test Methods for Determining the Water (Moisture) Content, Ash Content, and Organic Material of Peat and Other Organic Soils
ASTM D1586/D1586M-18: - Standard Test Method for Standard Penetration Test (SPT) and Split-Barrel Sampling of Soils
Soil Certifications, Licenses, and Accreditations:
Depending on your Soil products, you may need third-party Soil laboratories or research facilities with specific certifications, licenses or accreditations.
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