Infrastructure
NABLACCREDITED LABORATORY
- Accredited as per ISO 17025-2017
- Scope and Certificate
TESTING FACILITIES
- Equipped with modern material testing equipment for testing soil, aggregates, bituminous mixes, modified bituminous binders, cement, cement concrete and field testing Equipments conforming to Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Indian Roads Congress and Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRT&H).
- List of Testing Facilities at RASTA
List of Tests Conducted
| TESTS ON SOIL |
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| Wet & Dry Sieve Analysis |
| California Bearing Ratio (CBR) Test |
| Atterberg Limits |
| Free Swell Index |
| Light and Heavy Compaction |
| Moisture Content |
| Specific Gravity |
| Direct Shear Test |
| Triaxial Test |
| Hydrometer Analysis |
| Permeability Test |
| TESTS ON AGGREGATES |
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| Gradation |
| Impact Value |
| Crushing Value |
| Shape Test (Flakiness & Elongation Index) |
| Los Angeles Abrasion |
| Specific Gravity |
| Water Absorption |
| Polished Stone Value |
| Bulk Density |
| TESTS ON CEMENT |
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| Normal Consistency |
| Initial & Final Setting Time |
| Fineness by Blaine’s Air Permeability |
| Compressive Strength |
| Soundness |
| Density by Lechatelier’s apparatus |
| TESTS ON CONCRETE |
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| Compressive Strength |
| Split Tensile Strength |
| Flexural Strength |
| Workability by SlumpTest |
| Workability by Vee Bee Consistometer |
| Workability by Compaction Factor Test |
| Permeability |
| Flow Table Test |
| TESTS ON BITUMINOUS MIXES |
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| Marshall Stability |
| Rutting |
| Skid Resistance |
| Fatigue Test |
| Indirect Tensile Strength |
| Bitumen Extraction |
| TESTS ON BITUMEN |
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| Ductility |
| Penetration |
| Softening Point |
| Thin Film Oven Test |
| Flash & Fire Point Test |
| Viscosity by Brookfield/ Say Bolt Viscometer |
| Specific Gravity |
| Residue by Evaporation of Bituminous Emulsion |
| FIELD TESTS |
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| Falling Weight Deflectometer Studies |
| Benkelman BeamTest |
| Plateloadtest |
| Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity Test |
| Rebound Hammer Test |
| Roughness by BumpIntegrator & MERLIN |
| Skid Resistance |
| Field Density by Sand Replacement and Core Cutter Method |
| Gradation of Pavement Layers |
| Moisture Content by Rapid Moisture Meter |
| Bitumen Extraction |
| Camber |
| Micro & Macro Texture of Pavement |
| Dynamic Cone Penetration Test |
LABORATORY EQUIPMENT
- List of Testing Equipments at RASTA
List of Laboratory Equipment
| CONCRETE LABORATORY |
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| VicatNeedle apparatus |
| Cementmortar vibrator |
| Compactionfactor apparatus |
| Slumpcone apparatus |
| Compressiontestingmachine-2000 kN |
| Flexure Testing Machine -100 kN |
| FullyAutomaticCompressionTestingMachine-3000 kN |
| Cementmortarcubemoulds(70.6mm x 70.6mmx70.6mm) |
| Le-chateliers apparatus |
| Airpermeability Apparatus |
| Labconcrete mixer |
| Concrete tube Mould (l50mm x l50mm x l50mm) |
| U-box apparatus for SCC |
| V-funnel apparatus |
| J-Ring apparatus |
| Jaw crusher |
| UTM600kN capacity |
| Concrete Penetrometer |
| DEMECH gauge |
| Concrete Permeability apparatus |
| Automatic Air Blaine's apparatus |
| Marsh cone test apparatus |
| PROCEQRebound hammer |
| Profometer |
| Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity tester |
| LANGRYRebound hammer |
| SOIL LABORATORY |
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| Hot air oven (Ambient to 250 degrees C) |
| Vernier callipers (0 to 300 mm) |
| Steelscale (0 to 1000 mm) |
| Stop watch (0 to 1000 sec) |
| Weighing Balance (0.01 gm to 600 gm) |
| WeighingBalance (5gm to 50 kg) |
| Measuring Jars (0.1 to 50 m1) |
| Measuring .tars (1 to 100 m1) |
| Measuring Jars (1 to 250 ml) |
| Measuring Jar (1000ml) |
| Casagrande apparatus |
| Castlooseweights (500g, 1kg, 2kg, 5kg, 10kg, 20kg) |
| Thermo-hygrometer (-50 to +70 degrees C) |
| Glassthermometer (0 to 360 degrees C) |
| CBR Apparatus |
| CBR Moulds |
| Cone Penetrometer |
| Shrinkage limit apparatus |
| Corecutterforfield density |
| Sandreplacement apparatus |
| Permeabilitytest apparatus |
| Compactiontest apparatus |
| DigitalDirect Shear Apparatus |
| Analogdirectshear apparatus |
| Soilauto compactor |
| Sample Extruder |
| Sieve shaker |
| Triaxialtest apparatus |
| Fieldmoisture meter |
| Non-nucleardensity gauge |
| AGGREGATE LABORATORY |
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| Wirebasketfor specific gravity |
| Aggregate impact test apparatus |
| Aggregatecrushingvaluetest apparatus |
| Aggregateabrasiontest apparatus |
| Bulkdensitymeasuringcylinder-3 litres |
| Bulkdensitymeasuringcylinder-15 litres |
| Weighing Balance (0.1 to 15 kg) |
| Weighing Balance (0.01 to 600 g) |
| Length Gauge - (6.3 mm - 50 mm) |
| ThicknessGauge (6.3mm - 50mm) |
| Pycnometer Jar |
| G I Sieves - 90mm(30cm) dia |
| G I Sieves - 75mm(30cm) dia |
| G I Sieves - 63mm(30cm) dia |
| G I Sieves - 53mm(30cm) dia |
| G I Sieves - 50mm(30cm) dia |
| G I Sieves - 45mm(30cm) dia |
| G I Sieves - 40mm(30cm) dia |
| G I Sieves - 37.5mm(30cm) dia |
| G I Sieves - 31.5mm(30cm) dia |
| G I Sieves - 26.5mm(30cm)dia |
| G I Sieves - 25mm(30cm) dia |
| G I Sieves - 22.4mm(30cm) dia |
| G I Sieves - 20mm(30cm) dia |
| G I Sieves - 19mm(30cm) dia |
| G I Sieves - 16mm(30cm) dia |
| G I Sieves - 14mm(30cm) dia |
| G I Sieves - 13.2mm(30cm) dia |
| G I Sieves - 1.2.5mm(30cm) dia |
| G I Sieves - 11.2mm(30cm) dia |
| G I Sieves - 10mm(30cm) dia |
| G I Sieves - 9.5mm(30cm) dia |
| G I Sieves - 8mm(30cm) dia |
| G I Sieves - 6.7mm(30cm) dia |
| G I Sieves - 6.3mm(30cm) dia |
| G I Sieves - 5.6mm(30cm) dia |
| G I Sieves - 4.75mm(30cm) dia |
| G I Sieves - 4.0mm(30cm) dia |
| G I Sieves - 3.35mm(30cm) dia |
| Brass Sieves - 4.75mm(20cm dia) |
| Brass Sieves - 4.0mm(20cm dia) |
| Brass Sieves - 2.80mm(20cm dia) |
| Brass Sieves - 2.36mm(20cm dia) |
| Brass Sieves - 2.00mm(20cm dia) |
| Brass Sieves - 1.70mm(20cm dia) |
| Brass Sieves - 1.18mm(20cm dia) |
| Brass Sieves - 1.00mm(20cm dia) |
| Brass Sieves - 0.550mm(20cm dia) |
| Brass Sieves - 0.600mm(20cm dia) |
| Brass Sieves - 0.500mm(20cm dia) |
| Brass Sieves - 0.425mm(20cm dia) |
| Brass Sieves - 0.300mm(20cm dia) |
| Brass Sieves - 0.21mm(20cm dia) |
| Brass Sieves - 0.180mm(20cm dia) |
| Brass Sieves - 0.130mm(20cm dia) |
| Brass Sieves - 0.125mm(20cm dia) |
| Brass Sieves - 0.100mm(20cm dia) |
| Brass Sieves - 0.090mm(20cm dia) |
| Brass Sieves - 0.075mm(20cm dia) |
| Brass Sieves - 0.063mm(20cm dia) |
| Brass Sieves - 0.053mm(20cm dia) |
| Brass Sieves - 0.045mm(20cm dia) |
| BITUMEN LABORATORY |
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| Ductilitytest / elasticrecovery apparatus |
| Ringandball apparatus |
| Centrifuge extractor |
| Asphalt vertical mixer |
| Bitumen auto compactor |
| Wheel rut shaper |
| Wheel rut tester |
| Digital tar viscometer |
| Standard Penetrometer withd igital timer |
| Marshalstabilitytest apparatus |
| Saybolt viscometer |
| Flash and fire point — PenskyMarten |
| Continuous flow filterless centrifuge |
| Dean and Stark apparatus for estimation of moisture content |
| Apparatus tor determination of coagulation of emulsion |
| Apparatus for determination of particle charge |
| Apparatus for determination of viscosity of cutback bitumen |
| Repeated load tester |
| Mastic asphalt hardness tester |
| Asphalt mixture density meter |
| Stone polishing value apparatus |
| Skidresistance tester |
| FIELD TESTING EQUIPMENTS |
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| Benkelman beam apparatus |
| Plateloadtest apparatus |
| Bump integrator with transportation wheels and indicator |
| Portable wheel weigh bridge |
| Portable pendulum |
| Crackwedge gauge |
| Feeler gauge |
| Straight edge |
| Digital Camber board |
| Merlin |