Pavement Lab
Pavement Laboratory
- Materials testing system for dynamic and resilient modulus of soils, aggregate, and asphalt.
- 3 MTS frames with 3 separate controllers and 3 environmental chambers, 1 large hydraulic pump.
- Triaxial cyclic testing capabilities with varying lateral pressures
- Beam fatigue tetsing facility, hydraulic power system
- Diametral modulus and Indirect tension devices, Data Acquisition (DAQ) system with LabVIEW
- Uniaxial compression machine of 600 ksi capacity, automated asphalt saw and coring machine
- Superpave Gyratory compactor, Marshall Compactor, and Fatigue Beam (PMW linear) compactor
- Micro-Deval, Los Angeles abrasion testing device, sand equivalent testers, ovens, and compression device
- A full range of sieve shakers, splitters, aggregate washer, mixing whisks, water baths, specific gravity testing device, scales, and ovens
- A large Freeze-Thaw Chamber
- Vacuum desiccator, permeability (lab and field) apparatus, MIST device
- Hamburg Wheel Tracking Device
Asphalt Laboratory
- A micro-nano scale research grade Dynamic Shear Rheometer (DSR) with convection oven
- Bending Beam Rheometer (BBR), Bohlin dynamic shear rheometer, and Brookfield rotational viscometer
- Direct Tension Tester (DTT)
- Rolling Thin Film Oven (RTFO), Pressure Aging Vessel (PAV), degassing oven, three draft ovens
- Two NCAT ignition furnaces for asphalt content determination
- Multiple sets of devices for binder specific gravity, softening point, kinematic viscometer, absolute viscometer equipment, and penetrometers
- Several high precision scales, water bath and heating plates, micro-mixing systems
- Asphalt Adhesion (Texture) Analyzer
- Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR)
- Tribology System
- Rotavapor, chemical extraction
- Centrifuge for binder separation; Centrifuge for fines separation
- Wirtgen foamer and mixer