Road testing work under Majlis Daerah Baling as local authorities / Norfazliana Azizan

Road testing work under Majlis Daerah Baling as Local Authorities function is to determine the quality of road construction made by the developer based on thickness, process of work and strength of road. There are several steps to test the strength of the road conducted by MDB. MDB task to work of road testing is usually done on the street of residential houses, lots of shops and areas of operation of newly built sites require testing determining the strength of the land before it is opened to be fully used. MDB only test roads under surveillance of MDB only. If to roads and highways, the MDB is not involved in the work of the road testing because JKR that manages it. Road testing was do when the client submit letter to Engineering Department Majlis Daearah Baling to notice the road ready to testing. There a several steps work to test strength of road. Firstly, test soil moisture content or scientifically name is Field Density Test (FDT). FDT is done by placing the tray plate on the ground that has churser run. After that, the ground is excavated to a depth of l feet using drill machine. The excavated soil is put into plastic. Next, sand being carried separately and have burned without moisture (0o) inserted into a hole dug using cyiling cone. Sand that is inserted into the hole reinserted into the plastic and brought to a laboratory for testing the moisture content level of the soil and moisture content level of a sand that put into holes dug. . The road was test point to point. To calculate the amount of point of the area of site must divide with 500m2 and then can get the amount point that must do a test..