Pavement Program
Pavement Research Laboratory
The pavement research laboratory (Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kaven Hall) provides support for research and courses, major qualifying projects, faculty and graduate students. The lab is well equipped to conduct complete characterization of pavement materials. The state of the art array of equipment includes compactor, moisture susceptibility testing equipment, loaded wheel tester and extraction and recovery equipment. The laboratory contains some of the most advanced testing equipment - most notable of these are the material testing system (capable of conducting a wide range of tests, including stress-strain tests, indirect tensile strength, repeated uniaxial loading, Quality Control/Quality Assurance (QC/QA) frequency sweep, resilient modulus, and triaxial shear strength), the Model Mobile Load Simulator (use of this equipment enables the simulation of a large amount of traffic within a short period of time and evaluation of long-term performance of pavement materials), and an array of Non Destructive Testing equipment consisting of the Portable Seismic Property Analyzer, Falling Weight Deflectometer and Ground Penetrating Radar. In addition, WPI researchers will have access to field instrumentation available from the Maine DOT full-scale pavement loading and testing program. A major focus of the pavement engineering program is on integration of undergraduate and graduate curriculum with research projects funded by Maine Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, New England Transportation Consortium and National Science Foundation.
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