Glossary
The words that GeotechOS Lab uses, from approve and assigned values to work queue, with what each one means in the app.
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| Word | Meaning in Lab |
|---|---|
| Approve | The last of the three signatures on a result. An approved signatory approves it after a review. |
| Assigned values | The MDD and OMC assigned to a uniform material from six approved results (AS 1289.5.4.2). |
| Authorisation | Permission for a person to do, review or approve the tests of one method at one laboratory. |
| Batch sheet | One sheet for many open tests of the same method. |
| Book in | Record a job: its docket, samples and tests, in one step. |
| Breaking session | The cylinders and cubes broken at one time, with the machine checks done once. |
| Calibration | A check of equipment by a provider, with a certificate. |
| CBR | California bearing ratio: the resistance of a compacted soil to a piston, as a percentage of the resistance of a standard crushed rock. |
| Characteristic value | A value of a lot worked out from the mean and spread of its tests, for example the lower characteristic air voids. |
| Check | A routine check of equipment by the laboratory, for example a balance check. |
| Client | The organisation that a project is for, with its people. Rates and invoices are kept in the CRM. |
| Compaction control report | A report of the field density tests of one layer of an earthworks lot. |
| Density ratio | The field dry density as a percentage of the maximum dry density. |
| Earthworks lot | An area of fill built and tested as one, with its material and specification. |
| Governing penetration | The penetration, 2.5 mm or 5.0 mm, that gives the greater CBR. The reported CBR is from this penetration. |
| Issue | Release a report to the client. A correction makes a new issue that supersedes the old one. |
| Job | The work a client asks for at one time, with a number such as 1001. Also called a request. |
| Lockout | A block on equipment that failed a check or is out of calibration. |
| Main contact | The person at a client to call first. A client has one main contact. |
| MDD and OMC | The maximum dry density and optimum moisture content from a compaction test. |
| Multi-sample request | A job whose samples share one header and the same tests, usually taken on site. |
| Non-conformance | Work that did not meet a requirement, recorded with its cause and corrective action. |
| Oven run | The containers that are in the oven at one time, weighed to constant mass. |
| Project | The client's job at one site, with a site address and a place on the map. Shared with the rest of GeotechOS. |
| Refused by the server | A change that the server did not accept. Lab keeps it on the device with the reason. |
| Report recipient | A person at the client who gets a project's reports by email. |
| Review | The second signature on a result, by a person who did not do the test. |
| Sample | The material that came in, with a number such as S-1001A. |
| Seating load | The small load that seats the CBR piston on the specimen before the readings start. It counts as zero load. |
| Site lot | Site tests judged as one lot, for example an asphalt lot. |
| Site visit | A field job on the schedule, where site tests are recorded. |
| Surcharge | The annular weights on a CBR specimen during the soak and the penetration. They model the layers of pavement above. |
| Swell | How much a CBR specimen rises during the soak, as a percentage of its height. |
| Sync | Send your work to the server and get the changes that other people made. |
| Test | One test on one sample, with a number such as 1001-T01. |
| Work queue | The list of tests to do. On an iPad and a phone it is called Today. |
| Worksheet | The page where you type the readings of a test. |