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A FULL SERVICE LABORATORY
Universal Engineering Sciences has full-service laboratory testing capabilities for soil and construction materials. We calibrate our equipment continually and have our laboratories inspected by independent testing agencies such as Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), Concrete Materials Engineering Council (CMEC), and the Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) regularly. A summary of our typical laboratory equipment inventories is presented below:
  • 8 Triaxial, Falling Head Permeability Cells
  • 4 Triaxial Cells - Shear Tests and 
            Permeability
  • 4 Pressure Gauge Boards
  • 1 Triaxial Load Frame
  • 2 Consolidometers
  • 2 Pore Pressure Readout Boxes
  • 2 Pore Pressure Transducers
  • 5 Constant Temperature Blue M Ovens
  • 1 Soiltest Unconfined Compression Machine
  • 1 Whittemore Strain Gauge Linear
            Shrinkage Device
  • 1 Blue M Constant Temperature Bath
  • 2 Thermolyne Type 220 Hot Plate
  • 2 Setra (Digital, Tolerance 1/100 Gram) Scales
  • 2 Mettler (Digital) PC 8000 (1/10 Gram) Scales
  • 1 Duran 0-50 Pound Digital Scale
  • 1 Duran 0-30 Pound Digital Scale
  • 1 Milton Roy Mini 20 Nephelometer
  • 1 Milton Roy Spectrometer
  • 1 Corning pH Meter - Redox Meter
  • 1 Colorimeter Analysis
  • 1 Nilsson Soil Resistance Meter
  • 1 Specific Gravity Equipment
  • 2 Soil Hydrometers
  • 2 Atterberg Limit Apparatus
  • 1 Fisher Scientific Chloride Kit
  • 1 Fisher Scientific Surface/Surfide Kit
  • 1 Forney Model LT-404, Automatic Hydraulic Concrete Compression Machine
           (400,000 Pound Load Capacity) (60,000 Pound Load Capacity)
  • 4 Kilns
  • 1 Gilson Course and Fine Aggregate Shaker
  • 2 Gilson Splitter
  • 1 Hobart Mixer (40 Qt. Soil)
  • 3 Sulfur Compound Melting Pot, 120 Volts
  • 2 Humbolt Capping Stand and Plate, 3" and 4" diameter
  • 7 Soiltest, Forney and/or Brainard-Kilman
  • Capping Stand and Plate 6" diameter
  • 4 2x2x2 inch Brass Cube Molds
  • 4 IBM Compatible Computers
  • 1 Laser Jet Printer
  • 2 800 Watt Microwaves

  • 1 Rainhart Model 2X440A Marshall/LBR 
            Tester & DMP-12 Recorder
  • 60 LBR Molds
  • 16 CBR Molds
  • 3 Aluminum Soaking Tanks (26" x 72" x 12")
  • 1 Rainhart Model 2X440M (10 Capacity)
           Marshall Tester & Recorder
  • 2 Rainhart Series 662 Automatic Tamper
          (LBR/Proctor) Machines
  • 2 Manual Standard Hammers
  • 1 PCA Standard Hammer
  • 2 Manual Modified Hammer
  • 1 Soiltest Automatic Marshall Machine
  • 3 Sets ASTM Coarse Aggregate Sieves
  • 5 Sets ASTM Fine Aggregate Sieves
  • 1 Forney Gator Model 600, Automatic Hydraulic Concrete Compression Machine 
           (600,000 Pound Load Capacity)

  • Florida Bearing Value
  • Limerock Bearing Ratios
  • Soil-Cement Mixtures
  • Asphaltic-Concrete
  • Emulsified Asphalt/Soil per Modified Marshall
  • Coal for Asphalt: Adhesive, Fuel Resistant and Freeze/Thaw
  • Concrete Mixture: Cylinder/Beams
  • Masonry Mortar
  • Grout Mixtures
  • Complete concrete masonry units/prism and paving bricks units prisms equipment for
         absorption, unit weight, fire rating, linear shrinkage, and efflorescence testing

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