Industry Affiliate Services

Illinois Center for Transportation

is proud to provide fundamental and advanced materials testing and evaluation as well as innovative and practical solutions to engineering problems.

Industry Affiliate members gain direct access to ICT’s pavement engineering experts and standard and advanced testing capabilities, thus improving paving material quality, performance and cost effectiveness.

Here ATLAS loads the pavement with a conventional dual tire assembly. The environmental heaters can be seen in the background.

Testing Services

Soils and aggregates

Particle size distribution / grain size analysis
Standard / modified proctor
California Bearing Ratio
Unconfined / confined compression tests
Shear strength specific gravity

Asphalt products / binder

Binder performance grade verification and true grade
Multiple stress creep recovery
Temperature / frequency sweeps
Binder recovery
Aging (rolling thin-film oven, pressure aging vessel and ultraviolet)
Surface free energy

Hot-mix-asphalt

Batching / mixing / compacting
SuperPave gyratory and beam specimens
Index and performance testing (Illinois Flexibility Index Test, rutting, tensile strength ratio, dynamic modulus and indirect tensile creep/strength)
Binder content
HMA mix design and verification

Field testing

HMA and concrete core sampling
Ground-penetrating radar
Falling weight deflectometer
Full-scale pavement testing with Accelerated Transportation Loading Assembly

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Laboratory

AASHTO accredited and IDOT certified
State-of-the-art equipment
Independent and impartial
Basic and advanced testing
Experienced engineers

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