College of Engineering Department of Civil Engineering

Our Asphalt and Highway Laboratory contains various equipment used to categorize asphalt binders in terms of their properties and quality control. It also allows the preparation of concrete asphalt specimens for the Marshall Design method of asphalt mixtures proportions and provides necessary information for highway pavement design.

The major equipment in the laboratory includes:

• Marshall apparatus
• gyratory compactor
• automatic compactor
• Cleveland Open Cup Apparatus
• asphalt penetration apparatus
• ring and ball apparatus
• binder recovery apparatus
• tar viscometer
• hot extractor
• thin film oven
• muffle furnace
• constant temperature water bath

To see a 360° view of our lab, click here.