Road Construction Lab

Student Assistent

Louisa Gertig

 

Our Teaching and Research Laboratory

The Institute of Civil Engineering’s Road Construction Laboratory is a state-of-the-art teaching and research facility. Covering an area of over 200 m², it allows you to learn about all relevant suitability and control tests for aggregate gradations, the binder bitumen, and asphalt mixtures. Our range of services extends from sieve analysis to high-performance tests on bitumen—thanks to our state-of-the-art performance tester! We can offer you the full spectrum of code-compliant testing services. For external clients, we are an attractive research partner.

You can find a brief glimpse into our motivation, our laboratory equipment, and how we use it in our teaching here.

Feel free to stop by and check us out!

Lab staff

Dipl.-Ing. (HAW) Andreas Horton - Contact

Student Staff

Jannik Sieh-Petersen

Fields of competence

  • Asphalt Road Construction
  • Asphalt Road Maintenance
  • Aggregates
  • Bituminous binders

Course offerings

  • Determination of bulk density of aggregates
  • Determination of softening point of ring and ball
  • Determination of needle penetration
  • Determination of breaking point according to Fraaß
  • Production of Marshall samples with the Marshall compactor
  • Sieve analysis of aggregates
  • Determination of grip from asphalt samples
  • Determination of ductility and determination of permeability of asphalt samples