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Dosimeter badge

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What’s your job now? I’m doing this as my internship right now and wondering what comes after this

@@aidenmeehan9319 well that totally depends. I majored in structural engineering so I practiced that after graduating. I know that some interns stayed with the path and got office jobs as engineers with the testing company managing the test results from all the interns’ work. Others went down the geotechnical route. I also inspected rebar and concrete so I had more of a structural tilt. Nowadays I’m a financial advisor though made a career 180 after 4 years as an engineer. I’d sit down with a senior engineer at your company you’re interning for and ask questions on different career paths!

@@arineey4538 awesome, thank you. I’m also in the structural track

Wow those are tracked haha someone messed up bad or stole it lol

Be careful, they can be very radioactive

Lmfao. No. He didnt

​@snarp408 Pardon me sir, but I sense a bit of jealousy in the tone of your message. Jealous that I've been able to test soil density and soil aggregates in my neighborhood park like a boss and you havent. Sucks to suck!

@@1nePercentJuice lmao. No. I use a gauge daily

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The material has to be collaborated in the lab prior to testing. The engineer will come and take about 60kg worth as a sample and conduct an Optimal Moisture Content test at the lab. This will generate a Maximum Dry Density figure as well as an optimum moisture percentage. On site with the NDM, you compare the results to these collaborated figures and overall are given another percentage based on the similarity of the results. A 100% reading would be an identical MDD with moisture reading under the optimum. Most councils across the UK require material to pass at 95%. A high moisture reading (from rain, for example) would affect the result as would a poorly compacted material

PR is the number you get from the lab. They provide you a proctor and an optimal moisture to shoot for.

PR is "proctor value" it is the dry density maximum of the materials you're testing. You take a sample beforehand, the lab will process it and find the max dry density. That is your PR number and it specific to the materials you're testing

My gauge has that problem too. I believe the Troxlers can switch modes, there should be a mode button and switch it to 'manual'. When you place the rod in the probe hole it should now ask you for the depth and you can input it manually.

Dude I tried that and it doesn't work well on aggregate base, only soils. Has that been your experience too?

@@snarp408 yea u only use it on clay or aggregate free bases. For those you use the pin and hammer

No, not at all. You get more radiation in a single flight ✈️ than a year of safely operating a guage (with alara in mind)

@@kiritimatiswan1986 Unfortunately a lot of technicians use nuclear gauges incorrectly by deploying the rod above ground and then eyeballing it into the hole. This exposes their legs and feet to dangerous levels of radiation.

@@Geologist_Mike Is a non nuclear version not as accurate?

Dude I've been doing this shit every day for the past 8 years and every year I go for my medical my dosimeter badge barely has anything on it. You take more radz from a bloody microwave

​@@xXxKazamaxXxabsolutely. That's how I do it, and have never had a high dosemitry reading. Been doing it 4 years now!