Texas Tech Civil Engineering Department has made a very strong commitment to develop a state-of-the-art testing capabilities for bituminous materials. Texas Tech has already acquired Superpave® Level I mix design capabilities and basic asphalt testing equipment. The 1200 ft2 bituminous materials laboratory and the 1000 ft2 aggregate characterization laboratory house the following equipment.

Asphalt Concrete Testing:

• Hamburg Wheel-Tracking Device (double wheel)
• 60 ft3 Large Forced Draft Oven
• 20-Quart Mechanical Mixer
• 5-Quart Mechanical Mixer
• Portable Gyratory Compactor (Pine Model AFG1A)
• Bulk Specific Gravity equipment
• Rice Specific Gravity equipment
• Marshall Mix Design Test equipment
• Koch Materials Abrasion/Raveling Test equipment

Bituminous Binder Testing:

• Small 5 ft3 Superpave® Oven
• Brookfield DV-II+ Rotational Viscometer
• TA Instruments Dynamic Shear Rheometer
• Asphalt Ductility and Elastic Recovery Tester
• Spectrophotometer
• Laboratory Shaker for Chemicals