INTERVIEW FOR MATERIAL INSPECTORS

(1) How you will prove an asphalt mix design? Complete workout staring from quality test of
aggregate, percentage of course and fine, filler and bitumen, trial in lab, at plant, trial at site
standard job mix formula?
(2) What you will check before laying a mix?
(3) What happens to asphaltic mix when the temperatures reach to 180o C? - It will burn
(4) How you will observe that the mix is not good? - If it is more shining or burnt.
(5) How you will check a good quality of aggregates? - Sp. gravity, ACV, Sounding, LAA.
(6) Which aggregates are of better quality by origin? - Crushed aggregate form wadi.
(7) What is the effective asphalt content
(8) How you will design a concrete mix?
(9) What you will check before pouring? - Temperature slump.
(10) If the slump is 20 cm instead of 10 cm, what you will do?
● You will allow for pouring?
● You will wait for sometime?
● You will reject it?

(11) If the slump is less, will you add water? - No.

(12) What is 30/20?
(13) What tests your perform for steel? - Yield strength, tensile strength, bending BS 4449 and
rebinding chemical analysis.
(14) What types of cements?
(15) What do you mean by OPC, SRCD, MSRC?
(16) How you will perform CBR, what is CBR?
(17) What is the difference between soaked and dry CBR? Which is higher at 95% - dry
compaction? - Site CBR is dry CBR, 4 day soaked is called soaked CBR.
(18) What is difference between wet mix and aggregate road base?
(19) How you will approve a material for sub grade? - Suitability is ok.
(20) What is initial and final setting time of cement?
(21) How much time is required after mixing concrete?
(22) Sand equivalent
(23) VMA
(24) Sketch the formation up to surface - & various layers
(25) How to collect sample for CBR from formation?
(26) What is JMF?
(27) Compaction of B/C WC

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(28) Soundness
(29) Aggregates sampling
(30) Difference between road base and WMM
(31) Density test
(32) Asphalt layer
(33) How you check stockpile? - as per ASTM D 75, ASTM D979 2001
(34) If asphalt temperature less than 135o C what you will do? It may be only 1 o C less than
minimum limit?
(35) What is concrete temperature?
(36) What is the time limit for concrete placing?
(37) If concrete slump no OK, what you will do? - Reject
(38) How you take asphalt sample, please explain?
(39) What is subbase and how take sample?
(40) How you make field density test. If contractor cheat you, how can you catch?
(41) Explain proctor method.
(42) How you check tack coat and what is limit? - 0.3 - 0.6 c/m2
(43) How many layer of wet mix macadam road base? - 1 layer at a time
(44) At the time of asphalt paving what will the temperature of asphalt mix? - 135-163
(45) If the temperature is below the 120OC then what you will do? - Reject
(46) If the temperature is more the 163 O what you will do? Can you wait the temperature come
down? - Rejected
(47) If you have to start the asphalt paving what you will do first?
(48) How many layers of asphalt? - single layer at a time.
(49) Can you pave the two layers i.e. base course and binder course together? - No
(50) If you check the asphalt temperature and you found that is more 163 O and you are not allow
him for paving, the Contractor complained to your higher officer / engineer in-charge that
the temperature is within the limit, it will take some time. After some time the temperature
come down, what you will do? - check the mix burnt or not?
(51) From which point you will stand the asphalt? - Lower side
(52) If you area using SRC at one time that us not available and the work is very important did
you allow any other brand of cement? - No
(53) What is the rate of spare of prime coat? 0.7-1.5L/M2
(54) What is the rate of tack coat and temperature of tack coat at the time spray? - 0.3-0.6L/M2
(55) What is plastic limit?

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(56) What is plastic index?

(57) What is sand equivalent?
(58) What is the difference between aggregate road base an wet mix?
(59) What is the difference between modified and standard proctor?
(60) If plasticity index is more that 6% what will happen?
(61) What are the test you did in previous site?
(62) Do you know Marshall stability? - yes
(63) Do you know asphalt mix design? - yes
(64) What is the bitumen content?
(65) What will you check? Bitumen paving mix is laying on site?
(66) What is the water cement ratio?
(67) How much cement is used in 30/20?
(68) What is meant by 30/30? - comparison straight / min. size of aggregate
(69) How will you check mix on the concrete on-site after 5 hours?
(70) After checking temperature of concrete and slump what will you do?
(71) What are the three basic types of soils prevalent in the U.A.E?
(72) What is the average depth below ground level of water on the island?
(73) What so the abbreviations L.L and P.L & P.I. and how do you calculate P.I from them?
(74) At what temperature should the soil thread crumble when carrying out the P.L test?
(75) At what temperature should the drying oven in the laboratory be kept for soil testing?
(76) Would you carry out a washed grading on 20 mm single size aggregate?
(77) What are the three SG obtained when you perform a SG test for aggregates?
(78) What compaction method is/was used to find out the maximum dry density of subbase
materials used in the last project on which you worked? Give the number of layers, number
of blows, weight and falling distance to compaction hammer used.
(79) What do the abbreviations MWD, MDD and OMC mean?
(80) How do you calculate MDD and MWD?
(81) What does CBR mean and briefly explain the test procedure?

(82) Thermo block are used for: -

(1) Concrete
(2) Masonry
(3) Light Weight
(4) Masonry and Light weight

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(83) Write the units of the following:-

● Stability : ………………………
● Flow : ………………………
● Density : ………………………
● Specific Gravity : ………………………

(84) Plot the CBR graph penetration vs. load KN and what is the penetration rate?
(85) What is the prevention rate while testing the compression strength of following:-

1) Concrete cubes 2) Masonry Block 3) Paving Block

(86) What is liquid limit, describe the standard?

(87) Describe the concrete mix design method / procedure.
(88) What is the penetration rate while doing stability in marshal test?
(89) Describe duties and responsibilities of material inspector.
(90) How to take the sample when the asphalt is compacted and the results in the lab are failing?
(91) The consistency of concrete is checked by method:

i, Load test ii, Slump test iii, In lab iv, At site

(92) While doing Gmm test in lab how much time is required for suction of air by using compressor:

i, 3-5 min ii, 5-10 min iii, 10-15 min iv, 15-25 min

(93) While doing mixture density relationship test, how many blows and layer are required:

i, 2.5 ii, 35 iii, 56 iv, 62

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