Wish me luck

[Mighty HD]

Tomorrow I'll be taking my ACI test. Hopefully I'll pass.

[99silveradoz71]

Good luck

[budhayes3]

 

GOOD LUCK MAN!!!

[Wingnut]

 

Luck

[Mighty HD]

It's Doom's day, we'll see how well I know the 7 astm's....

[Wingnut]

What's an ACI test anyway?

[budhayes3]

What's an ACI test anyway?

 

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I was wondering that too, but I thought that it was something I should know so I was afraid to ask...thanks for askin!

[Mighty HD]

ACI = American Concrete Institute. It's a certification requited for FDOT inspectors. They have several areas of certification. I hopefully will be certified as a concrete field testing tech. Whenever the concrete comes to the jobsite, if required by FDOT specs, I have to test for slump, air content, tempature, water/cement ratio, and yeild if required by the contract documents.

 

Most of the time I do not perform the tests. The contractor provides a testing firm to do the actual testing, I just watch them to ensure that it is being done right, or if I feel it is needed, I'll do them as well and my results will be used in place of theirs. That's the benefit of working for an engineering firm, vs a testing lab.

 

Concrete is amazing stuff. There's so much to it.

 

I/they do these tests because each one can greatly affect the strength of the cement. Some may not think that it does, but believe me, it will.

 

 

Here's a history on ACI

http://www.concrete.org/general/AHistoryofACI.pdf

 

http://www.cmec.org/cert_field_we.shtml

 

 

Florida uses CTQP and CMEC to mostly provide the classes needed for inspectors to become certified.

http://www.cmec.org/

http://ctqp.ce.ufl.edu/index.htm