Asphalt and Materials Laboratory
The Auburn University Asphalt and Materials Laboratory is located in the basement
of the Harbert Engineering Center. This laboratory provides undergraduate and
graduate students with exposure to hot mix asphalt (HMA) design, aggregate specification
testing, assessments of fundamental materials properties, and hands-on experience
with state-of-the-art automated field data collection.
HMA Equipment
- Superpave gyratory compactor
- Maximum specific gravity
- Bulk specific gravity of compacted mixtures
- Indirect tensile load frame
Aggregates
Semi-automated flat and elongated - Digital microscopy
- Sand equivalent
- Methylene blue for clay content
- Uncompacted voids in fine or coarse aggregate
- Micro-deval abrasion
- LA Abrasion
- Compacted Aggregate Resistance (CAR)
- Instrotech CoreLok vacuum seal specific gravity
Fundamental Material Properties
- Dynamic modulus
- Resilient modulus
- Stress relaxation
- Creep
Mobile Pavement Survey Laboratory
Roadware ARAN van- Ride quality assessment
- Prototype scanning laser system
- Texture measurements
- Auburn University Samuel Ginn College of Engineering
- Auburn, AL 36849
- Phone:
- Email: webmaster@eng.auburn.edu