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