Detailed Material Testing & Soil Analysis in Medicine Hat

Our material testing services include aggregate testing and soil analysis for companies in Medicine Hat and others throughout Southern Alberta and Southern Saskatchewan. We use specialized and up-to-date equipment for our material testing services, to ensure a detailed and comprehensive analysis is done. The following is a list of GEM Testing Ltd.’s material testing services we provide:

Soil and aggregate testing

Concrete testing

Asphalt testing

Soil & Aggregate Testing

The following is a list of soil and aggregate testing services we provide:

Nuclear density and moisture testing of engineered fill

Aggregate gradation analysis—hydrometer and mechanical sieve methods

Flat and elongated particles, sand equivalent, fracture count

Moisture content

Organic content

Atteberg Limit Property Analysis

Standard Proctor Moisture – density relationships, fine and coarse

Unit weight and specific gravity of sand and rock

Unconfined compression testing

Water soluble sulphate testing

Cone Penetrometer testing

Pocket Penetrometer testing

Concrete Testing

The following is a list of concrete testing services we provide:

Slump of plastic concrete

Air content of plastic concrete by pressure method

Cast and test compressive strength cylinders

Concrete coring – 4” and 6” diameter

Concrete core strength testing

Density and unit weight of cores

Cutting and polishing concrete up to 6” square

In-place air void content by linear traverse method

None destructive in-place strength test by use of Schmidt Hammer

Concrete shrinkage testing

Asphalt Testing

The following is a list of asphalt testing services we provide:

Marshall Mix Property Analysis

Marshall Mix Design Testing

Asphalt cement (AC) content testing – ignition method

Aggregate gradation

Maximum theoretical density (MTD)

Marshall Density, flow and stability

Asphalt pavement coring – 4” and 6”

Density, unit weight and thickness of cores