Our AASHTO accredited NCAT laboratory is well equipped to perform all routine mix design and quality control tests for binders and mixtures, including a full array of Superpave asphalt binder testing equipment such as:

• dynamic shear rheometers
• bending beam rheometers
• pressure aging vessel
• direct tension tester
• Brookfield viscometer

In addition to the capability to perform aggregate source and consensus property testing, the laboratory also includes:

• digital aggregate imaging system
• Micro-Deval abrasion equipment
• laser particle size analyzer
• British polishing wheel and pendulum tester

NCAT is also equipped to perform an impressive array of advanced characterization mixture tests including:

• dynamic modulus
• confined repeated load deformation
• Hamburg wheel tracking
• Asphalt Pavement Analyzer rutting
• indirect tensile creep compliance and strength
• repeated-load shear
• bending beam fatigue
• fracture energy
• hydraulic conductivity
• interlayer bond strength