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Material tests

Whether destructive or not, materials testing provides an exhaustive picture of the description of material properties. These tests are therefore a perfect tool for gaining a better understanding of materials, and in turn data that facilitates decision-making on a given project. 

Rely on AGTS to manage the risks associated with materials testing and ensure responsible operations that comply with current regulations.


The issues

Our professions meet your challenges:

  • Identify risk zones and map soil conditions
  • Ensure infrastructure stability
  • Ensure the viability of projects over time
  • Identify soil and subsoil characteristics
  • Prevent environmental phenomena and related risks
  • Ensure regulatory compliance
  • Help make decisions on the use of materials and appropriate methods 
  • Identify sources of borrowed materials and their capacity.
  • Ensuring safety and risk control

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AGTS Solutions

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 AGTS provides quality and performance control for construction materials before, during and after their use. We deploy teams to research and/or characterise materials. Implementation is monitored to ensure performance against assumptions and confirmation against reference documents (specifications, regulations, etc.).

 

In-situ tests

  • Sampling: coring or continuous double or triple rotation, static sampling with a thin-walled tube (Shelby), mazier corer, roto percussion, etc.
  • Heavy and light dynamic penetrometer testing
  • Static piezocone penetration test (CPTu)
  • Core penetration test (SPT)
  • Pressuremeter test with measurement of drilling parameters
  • Scissometer test
  • Drilling equipment: piezometer, pumping tests
  • Hydraulic tests (Lefranc, Lugeon, Porchet)
  • Intact sample collection

Materials laboratory

  • Identification tests
  • Flattening
  • Proctor and CBR tests
  • Production control and monitoring

 

Soil mechanics laboratory

  • Casagrande box direct shear test
  • Swelling test
  • Oedometer step loading test
  • Permeability test
  • Triaxial tests

 

Concrete technology laboratory

  • Tests on fresh concrete
  • Tests on hardened concrete
  • Hydraulic concrete formulation study
  • Core drilling of hydraulic concrete
  • Sclerometer rebound index tests
  • Control and monitoring of execution

 

Road technology laboratory

  • Complete identification tests
  • Bituminous concrete mix design study
  • Duriez test
  • Marshall test
  • PCG, rutting, fatigue modulus
  • Bitumen testing (penetrability, ring ball)
  • In-situ density with membrane densitometer or gammadensimeter
  • Plate test
  • Deflection
  • Control and monitoring of execution

 

Chemical laboratory

  • Aggression test
  • Mixing water test
  • Alkali reaction
  • Organic matter
  • Heavy metals
  • Pollution study
  • Potability test
  • COD and BOD test
  • Resistivity
  • Conductivity
  • Corrosivity

AGTS expertise

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At AGTS, we are committed partners for geotechnical and materials engineering.

With AGTS, you have access to our network of experts in geotechnical and materials engineering, on the latest generation of machines for all types of geotechnical testing to detect all soil and subsoil characteristics and identify site-related geotechnical risks. Our experienced experts are with you every step of the way, keeping up to date with current regulations.

AGTS is recognized nationally and internationally, with numerous references. We guarantee optimal solutions for your geotechnical needs.
Our locations

A local proximity

For 150 years, Apave has been a benchmark player in risk management on an international scale. With a worldwide presence, the group currently operates in some twenty African countries (Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, Morocco, Tunisia, Madagascar, Cameroon, Chad, etc.).

AGTS, a subsidiary of the Apave Group, has the same ambitions. With a large pool of experts and a high degree of mobility, we can intervene on almost the entire African continent, in the shortest possible time.
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Our equipments
Discover our range of precision measurement tools, including sound level meters, moisture meters, rebar detectors and much more. At AGTS, we offer you state-of-the-art equipment, specially designed to meet the challenges of Africa's toughest sites. Thanks to our expertise and use of state-of-the-art technology, our solutions offer precision for your specific projects, ensuring reliable data for informed decision-making.
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Auscultation - Measurements - Instrumentation
Through monitoring, measurements and instrumentation (AMI), AGTS supports you throughout the various phases of your project studies and monitoring. In the field of AMI, AGTS offers a wide range of services including monitoring of structures, geophysical studies, topography, bathymetry and instrumentation.  Various methods are available for these assignments, and will be used depending on the objective of the study, the customer's time and budget constraints, and site constraints such as access.
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Engineering, geotechnical surveys and materials
A geotechnical survey is a useful and cost-effective step before starting a construction project. The geotechnician applies his or her knowledge and know-how to ensure the proper realization, optimization and safety of the project to be carried out. Whether for the construction of buildings, bridges, roads, freeways, tunnels, dykes, quays, viaducts, canals, dams, retaining walls, jetties, breakwaters, groins, gabions, riprap, airports, ports, power plants..., the expertise of a geotechnician is essential and beneficial. AGTS provides engineering support throughout your project, from design to completion, to help you better understand the behavior of all types of soil and groundwater.
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Why choose

AGTS ?

Number one

REACTIVITY

We know that you need a fast, efficient response for optimum management of your project. AGTS with its geotechnical laboratories and our subsidiaries in Africa are ready to support you in your quest for risk control. We are committed to listening to you and providing solutions tailored to your needs.
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INNOVATION

AGTS is constantly on the lookout for innovative, tailor-made solutions, and our employees are committed to delivering them with determination and expertise. For each of your projects, a multi-skilled team, capable of effectively considering all the impacts linked to risk management, is dedicated to you.
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COMMITMENT

We are committed to working with you to meet your requirements reliably, on time and to budget. At AGTS, we guarantee a unique and successful customer experience. We are seasoned professionals in our fields, and we are committed to serving you responsibly. We provide you with technical expertise to control technical, human, environmental, digital and technological risks. Our experts provide advice and customized solutions tailored to our customer's needs.