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SPSU Georgia Pavement
Research Center
Building G
Suite 156
1100 South Marietta Pkwy
Marietta, GA 30060

skim4@spsu.edu
678.915.5491

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Facilities


The Georgia Pavement Research Center is equipped with advanced testing machines to perform a variety of lab tests on paving materials, i.e., asphalt, aggregate, soil, and concrete, and the structural design of pavement.

Key Testing Equipments List:

1. Interlaken UniTest System with Environmental Chamber

2. IPC UTM 14P Machine with Triaxial Testing Cell

3. Pine Gyratory Compactor

4. 20-Qt. Laboratory Bench Mixer

5. Automatic Mechanical Compactor

6. Percometer (Tube Suction Test)

7. AFCT2 Coefficient of Thermal Expansion System


List of Testings;


  • Flow Time & Flow Number of HMA using the Creep or Repeated Load
  • Dynamic/Resilient Modulus of Hot-Mix Asphalt
     
  • Indirect Tension Test of HMA
  • Resilient Modulus of Unbound Granular Base/Subbase Materials 
  • Resilient Modulus of Subgrade Soils
     
  • Nondestructive Moisture Susceptibility Measurements of Aggregate base and subgrade
  • Resistance to Permanent Deformation of Bituminous Materials
  • Permanent Compressive Strain Characteristics of HMA
  • Permanent Deformation of Granular Materials
  • Superpave Mix Design
  • Specific Gravities
  • Flexible/Rigid Pavement Structural Design
  • Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design