Our company is just starting to use the Lab Testing Module and the Lab Testing User Guide isn't very user friendly for a novice gINT Administrator. The lab's procedure is to run sieve analysis with a cumulative weight of coarse and a cumulative weight of fines (splitting the sieve between 4.75mm and 2mm). The lab also zeroes out the scale after putting the pan on so there are no tare weights in the "Wt Sieving Tare Coarse" and "Wt Sieving Tare Fines" columns.
No matter how I go about inputting the data it 1) does not split the sample; 2) does not calculate the fines content of each individual sieve correctly; and 3) over calculates the weight of fines tested.
Kate ..Just to flesh things out to "see" what goes where on a test form , and then what and how things go into gINT. The above lab data elements are in the lab data collection data file, and are imported to the proper slot in the gINT via a correspondence file
Art - good call, and I actually found the problem. The lab reported one sieve of 0.8 mm when gINT only reads 0.85 mm for that value:
So problem solved! It is weird how the lab imported the splits, but that data doesn't seem cause any issues once the sieve size is updated.
Please post a shot ot the actual hand recorded lab data sheets for one of the sieve analysis runs.
please post up the screenshot of the sieves and their input values - the grid thatr is below the one you show.
Recheck the lab testing user guide (starts at pg 37 of the pdf) as you may have too much data in your fields. Usually samples are split on the No 10 sieve (2mm). You only have three samples with that condition. You need to change the other samples from 0.075mm to 2mm if they were split samples. If they weren't split samples, delete the values in that field and delete the data in the Wt Fines Tested field.
This is a typical sieve analysis without a split.