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.
Testing Services
- Particle size distribution / grain size analysis
- Standard / modified proctor
- California Bearing Ratio
- Unconfined / confined compression tests
- Shear strength specific gravity
- 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
- 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
- HMA and concrete core sampling
- Ground-penetrating radar
- Falling weight deflectometer
- Full-scale pavement testing with the Illinois Accelerated Pavement Tester
Laboratory
- AASHTO accredited and IDOT certified
- State-of-the-art equipment
- Independent and impartial
- Basic and advanced testing
- Experienced engineers
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