FIUBA PAVEMENT LABORATORY
We visited one of the pavement laboratories more modern region of
The laboratory of the Department of Transportation of the FIUBA carried out by Ing. Juan Campana and Ing. Alejandro Bisio are part of a major renovation carried out by Vialidad Nacional a few years ago, supporting universities and different district laboratories with state-of-the-art equipment. of Highway.
We had the pleasure of visiting the facilities, knowing how the laboratory works and taking the opportunity to strengthen even more the ties with this University of Argentina.
The laboratory has capacities for the analysis of the different asphalt paving materials as well as equipment for the design and evaluation of mixtures. It has a complete laboratory for analysis of asphalt binders both by traditional tests and by grade PG. It also has aggregate and filler evaluation equipment as well as dynamic soil evaluation equipment.
As for asphalt mixtures, they have different types of mixers and compactors for the preparation of various test specimens, as well as all the tools for their correct sawing and preparation. The highlight is the mixture evaluation equipment that has both dynamic modulus according to European and American standards and fatigue evaluation equipment in various formats. Obviously the rutting and binder content equipment and others are present in such a modern laboratory.
