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 entraction


• Centrifuge for binder seperation; Centrifuge for fines seperation


• Wirtgen's Foamer with conencted mixing machine