The Transportation and Pavement Research Laboratory is being developed as a world-class research facility equipped with advanced testing machines, devices and innovative technology to address transportation research; pavement performance analysis, design, rehabilitation, and management; advanced material testing and characterization; development of new and sustainable materials; as well as the development and dissemination of sustainable transportation and pavement practices.

 

Equipment and Instruments

• Automatic Close System Asphalt Analyzer
• Laser PIV system
• Pressure Aging Vessel (PAV)
• Versatile Flexural Testing Machine
• HM921 ATS Vacuum Degassing Oven
• Rotary Evaporation Apparatus
• Industrial Ultrasonic Path
• Overhead Stirrer
• Wavetronix SmartSensor HD Mounted on a Mobile Trailer Powered by Solar Panels
• Lane Traffic Counters
• Lane Traffic Detectors
• Video Detectors
• Intersection Turning Movement Counters (Digital and Mechanical)
• Traffic Analysis Software
• Speed Radar Guns
• Digital Measuring Wheel
• 63X Series Sound Level Meter
• LVDTs and Accelerometers (Sensors) Software
• Automated Universal Asphalt Saw
• Pivot Automatic Penetrometer
• Ball and ring softening point tester
• Lab High Shear Mixer
• Superpave Gyratory Compactor
• 30 kN Universal Testing Machine (UTM) with Environmental Chamber-20 to 70C
• Marshall Test Apparatus
• Digital Measuring Wheel
• Brookfield Rotational Viscometer
• Bitumen Automatic Consistency and Penetration
• Bitumen Content by Ignition Method
• Dynamic Hybrid Rheometer (DHR)
• Rolling Thin Film Oven (RTFO)
• Softening Point Automatic tester
• Flash point Automatic tester
• Asphalt equipment and samples washing machine
• Asphalt mixtures volumetrics setup
• Ultra-sonic mixer.
• Sand Equivalent setup.
• Bending Beam Rheometer

Services

Traffic and Transportation

• Highway and Roads Traffic survey
• Highway and Roads traffic studies 

Aggregates

• Specific Gravity of Coarse Aggregates
• Specific Gravity of Fine Aggregates
• Specific Gravity of Mineral Filler
• Bulk Density of Fine Aggregates
• Bulk Density of Coarse Aggregates
• Sand Equivalent Test of Fine Aggregates
• Elongation and Flakiness Index of Coarse Aggregates
• Particle Shape of Coarse Aggregates
• Particle Shape of Fine Aggregates
• Particle Shape of Mineral Filler
• Sieve Analysis of Coarse Aggregates
• Sieve Analysis of Fine Aggregates
• Soil Shear Modulus using DHR

Asphalt Cement

• Specific Gravity of Asphalt
• Penetration Test
• Softening Point Test
• Rotational Viscosity Test
• Short Term Aging RTFO
• Long Term Aging PAV
• Dynamic Shear Modulus Test
• Fatigue Test
• Multiple Stress Creep and Recovery Test MSCR
• Linear Amplitude sweep test
• Binder performance test
• Binder low performance grade using BBR.
• Ignition Oven Test for Binder Extraction
• Binder Extraction Test by Solvent
• Binder Recovery Test
• Binder mass loss using RTFO

 

Asphalt Concrete Mix

• Theoretical Maximum Specific Gravity Test
• Bulk Specific Gravity
• Marshal Mix Design
• Superpave Gyratory Compaction
• Dynamic Modulus Test
• Resilient Modulus Test of Asphalt Concrete
• Resilient Modulus Test of Unbounded Materials
• Triaxial Repeated Load Permanent Deformation (Flow Number) Test
• Triaxial Static Permanent Deformation (Flow Time) Test
• Uniaxial Fatigue Test
• Indirect Tensile Strength Test
• Triaxial Shear Test
• Semi-Circle Bending Test
• C* Fracture Test
• Moisture Damage Lottman Test.