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QUALITY MANAGEMENT
M O D U L E
MATERIALS TESTING
QUALITY CONTROL
It should be emphasized that what are specified are the minimum number
of testing only. Additional number of test can be require to the materials
if the owner/inspector is in doubt of the quality of materials or the
finished structure.
If the test is not conducted at the proper time, there is no quality control
since it will then be too late to correct anything that is defective.
What is Quality ?
is a judgment by the customer or users of a product or
service.
It is the extent to which the customer or users feel the
product or service surpasses their needs and
expectations.
What is Control ?
It is usually used in relation to something in need of
checking or regulating due to some important and
compelling reasons.
It is used to correct something which has gone wrong or
in other words, control is instituted as a (corrective)
preventive measure.
There is another form of control which is now widely and
increasingly used in most industries to gauge the
performance and excellence of work and product. It is the
combination of the above two-words we have just defined and
the name is Quality Control.
What is checked?
Materials and methods of construction or workmanship
Quality Control therefore includes all procedures which are necessary
to insure that the materials used and workmanship employed conform
to the standard of quality specified in the approved plans and specifications
If quality control is done by sight or other means without the benefit
of laboratory tests, and lately executed, it is pure and simple
guessing.
A.
Tests to be Performed
Item No.
Description
Unit
Quantity
103 (1)
Structure Excavation
cu.m.
41
None
103 (6)
cu.m.
85
None
104 (1)
cu.m.
659
104 (2)
cu.m.
1657
105 (1)
Subgrade Preparation
sq.m.
21,808
200 (1)
cu.m.
4811
GP-16,C-4,D-64,
Q-4, CBR-2
201
cu.m.
7474
GP-25, C-5,Q-5,
D-100, CBR-3
311
PCCP
sq. m.
a. Cement
bags
b. Fine Agg.
cu. m.
c. Coarse Agg.
cu. m.
d. Steel Bars
kg.
e. Concrete
cu. m.
f. Completed PCCP, 200mm. , thk.
34,181
61,526
3419
5264
700
GPC 1, D-7
GPC 1, D-17
GPC 3, D-44
Q 31
Q 3, G- 46
Q 4, G-71
Q1
FS 91 sets CB
5 cores/km/lane
B.
INSPECTION:
__________________________________
Materials Engineer
Approved By:
_______________________________
Project Engineer
Date
Description
Quantity Accomplished
________________________
_________________________
_________________________
_________________________
_________________________
__________________________
b.
c.
Inspection
- An activity which is complimentary to quality control
- It is done on items of works not subject to testing. Construction
activities such as proper placing of forms, building up an embankment
in layers, benching of the hillside prior to filling, placing of
reinforcement or curing of concrete are encompassed by inspection.