Facilities

Indirect Tension Modulus Test

With this test set-up the Resilient Modulus and Fatigue behaviour of asphalt mixtures can be determined at different temperatures and frequencies.

Salient Features:
Max Force: 5 kN
Temperature range: -5 to 60°C
Frequency range : 0.01 - 10 Hz

Indirect Tension Strength and Fatigue Test

With this test set-up an indication of the tensile strength of asphalt mixtures can be measured. The basic idea is to submit a slice of the material under investigation to a compressive force along its vertical axis. This results in a tensile stress along the horizontal axis, which causes splitting failure. With this set up also the Fatigue properties of an asphalt specimen can be measured.

Salient features:
Max Force: 150 kN
Temperature range: -5 to 60°C
Frequency range : 0.001 - 30 Hz

Uniaxial Tension Strength Test

With this test set-up the tensile strength of asphalt mixtures can be determined at different temperatures and strainrates. With this set up also the Tensile Modulus and the Fatigue properties in tension can be measured as a function of temperature and frequency.

Salient Features:
Max Force: 50 kN
Temperature range: -20 to 60°C
Frequency range : 0.001 - 30 Hz
Strainrate range:0.001-5% per sec

Uniaxial Compression Strength Test

With this test set-up the compressive strength of asphalt mixtures can be determined at different temperatures and strainrates.

Salient Features:
Max Force: 150 kN
Temperature range: -20 to 60°C
Frequency range : 0.001 - 30 Hz
Strainrate range:0.001-5% per sec

Uniaxial Compression Modulus Test

With this test set-up the Compressive strength of asphalt mixtures can be determined at different temperatures and strainrates.

Salient Features:
Max Force: 50 kN
Temperature range: -20 to 60°C
Frequency range : 0.001 - 30 Hz

Semi-Circular Bending Test

With this test set-up the tensile strength or fracture toughness of an asphalt mixture can be measured at different temperatures.

Salient Features:
Max Force: 50 kN
Temperature range: -5 to 60°C
Frequency range : 0.001 - 30 Hz

Four Point Shear Test

With this test set-up the shear strength of an asphalt mixture can be determined at different temperatures and shear rates.

Salient Features:
Max Force: 240 kN
Temperature range: -5 to 60°C
Shearrate range : 0.001 - 10% per sec

Shear Test (Leutner)

With this test set-up the shear strength of an asphalt mixture can be determined at different temperatures and shear rates.

Salient Features:
Max Force: 150 kN
Temperature range: -5 to 60°C
Shearrate range : 0.001 - 10% per sec

Four Point Bending Test

The 4-point bending test can be used to determine the flexural stiffness, phase angle, dissipated energy and fatigue behaviour of an asphalt beam as a function of temperature and frequency (master curve) in displacement-control or stress control mode.

Salient Features:
Max Force: 10 kN
Temperature range: -5 to 60°C
Frequency range : 0.001 - 30 Hz

Triaxial Permanent Deformation Test

This test applies a repeated pulsed uniaxial stress to a cylindrical asphalt specimen together with a constant confinement and continually plots the resulting axial permanent and resilient strain.

Salient Features:
Max Force: 5 kN
Temperature range: -10 to 60°C
Frequency range : 0.01 - 10 Hz

Dynamic Shear Rheometer Test

With the Dynamic Shear Rheometer the complex shear modulus, phase angle and fatigue behaviour of bitumen, bituminous binders, mortar and stone-mortar-stone columns can be determined at different temperatures and frequencies.

Salient Features:
Max Torque 300 mNm
Temperature range: -20 to 200°C
Frequency range : 10-7 - 200 Hz

Mortar Tensile Test

With this test set-up the tensile strength of mortar can be determined at different strainrates and temperatures. With this set up also the Tensile Modulus and the Fatigue properties in tension of mortar can be measured as a function of temperature and frequency.

Salient Features:
Max Force: 5 kN
Temperature range: -10 to 60°C
Frequency range : 0.01 - 10 Hz
Strainrate range:0.001-5% per sec

Mortar Compression Method

With this test set-up the compressive strength of mortar can be determined at different strainrates and temperatures. With this set up also the Compressive Modulus and the Fatigue properties in compression of mortar can be measured as a function of temperature and frequency.

Salient Features:
Max Force: 5 kN
Temperature range: -10 to 60°C
Frequency range : 0.01 - 10 Hz
Strainrate range:0.001-5% per sec

Fourier Transform Infra Red (FTIR) spectrometer

A Perkin-Elmer Spectrum 100 FT-IR spectrometer is available in the pavement engineering laboratory. The FTIR technique can be used to obtain an infrared spectrum of absorption or emission of a material. FTIR spectroscopy can be used for material identification and verification, additive identification and quantification, contaminant identification and chemical degradation assessment.

Attenuated Total Reflectance (ATR) accessory for the analysis of solids, liquids, pastes, and gels.

Multiple reflection Horizontal Attenuated Total Reflectance (HATR) accessory for the analysis of liquid, semi-liquidand a number of solid materials (temperature controlled).