Laboratory of Asphalt Materials and Mixtures (LAM)

The Laboratory of Asphalt Materials and Mixtures (LAM) has the following equipment: set for determining the maximum specific weight (Rice Test) containing a shaking table and vacuum pump; pump vacuum; Marshall press with capacity 5,000 kgf; manual Marshall compactor; oven for sterilization and drying; electric rotarex and manual rotarex; sample extractors; universal and digital penetrometers; automatic CBR-MARSHALL press; MARSHALL automatic compactor; magnetic stirrers and various sieves (various meshes); ultrathermostatic bath; kinematic viscometer, Furol 2 Peletron viscometer and SCHOTT viscometer (Herstellerzertifikat fur kapillarviskosimeter); digital scales; apparatus for determining the Flash Point; equipment for determining particle charge; equipment for determining the shape index; SUPERPAVE rotary compactor equipment; hot plates and water baths.