Asphalt and Asphalt Structures Laboratory
Overview of the equipment (instruments) available to the laboratory
- Bitumen ductilometer, Strassentest
- Softening-point (ring and ball) apparatus for bitumen, Ring and Ball Tester Herzog
- SRT apparatus, Skid Resistance Tester, England
- Penetrometer, Labor Automatic
- Bitumen breaking point, Fraass
- Low-temperature chamber, Obod
- Mobile core-drilling rig, Strassentest
- Marshall compactor, IMS Automatic
- Marshall press, IMS
- Asphalt mixer, Cox & Sons, USA
- Abrasion resistance of stone material, Los Angeles
- Deflectometer, Benkelman beam, IMS
- Asphalt layer thickness gauge, Schichtdickenmesser, Germany
- Automatic sieve shaker, Wykeham Farrance, England
- Thermostatically controlled water bath, Sutjeska
- Bitumen distillation apparatus, Soxhlet
- Bitumen centrifuge, SSM-Uster, Switzerland
- Sterilizer up to 200 °C, ST-05 Zagreb
- Distillation and re-distillation apparatus
- Precision balance, Tehtnica Železniki
- Muffle furnace, USSR
- Vacuum pump with desiccator
- Heat-resistant pycnometers, 1000 ml
- Rigden apparatus for filler
- Digital balance up to 1 kg
- Adhesion (stickiness) apparatus
- Raube
The laboratory has appropriate space in terms of size and purpose, equipped with the appropriate infrastructure.
The laboratory equipment also includes a large number of small accessories that form an integral part of the main equipment.
The laboratory is equipped for laboratory-demonstration teaching in the field of flexible pavement structures and their components:
- bitumen
- filler
- stone aggregate
- additives
- emulsions
With its equipment, the laboratory carries out research and testing of pavement structures in service and cooperates closely with the construction industry in its applied activities.
We are of the opinion that the existing equipment needs to be supplemented and renewed with more sophisticated models, given that it is specific to the field of civil engineering, which is currently booming.