Faculty of Planning
Highway Engineering Laboratory
About the Highway Engineering Laboratory
The CEPT Highway Engineering Laboratory involves planning, designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining roads, bridges and tunnels to ensure safe and effective transportation of people and goods. The highway engineering laboratory is dedicated to conducting all standardized tests to assess the quality of highway materials as per relevant codes, as given below:
| Sr. No. | Types of Tests as per Applicable IS code |
| 1 | Laboratory Determination of CBR (IS 2720: Part 16: 1987) (Reaffirmed 2021) |
| 2 | Determination of Abrasion Value of Aggregate (IS 2386: Part 4: 1963) (Reaffirmed 2021) |
| 3 | Bitumen Softening Point Test (IS 1205: 2022) |
| 4 | Determination of Penetration Value of Bitumen (IS 1203: 2022) |
| 5 | Determination of Ductility of Bitumen (IS 1208: Part 1: 2023) |
| 6 | Loss on Heating of Bitumen (IS 1212: 2022) |
| 7 | Flash and Fire Point of Bitumen (IS 1209: 2021) |
| 8 | Determination of Absolute Viscosity of Bitumen (IS 1206: Part 2: 2022) |
| 9 | Determination of Kinematics Viscosity of Bitumen (IS 1206: Part 3: 2021) |
| 10 | Stripping Value of Road Aggregates (IS 6241: 2024) |
| 11 | Marshall Stability Test of Bitumen (ASTM D6927) |
| 12 | Centrifuge Extraction of Bitumen (ASTM D2172) |
List of major instruments in Highway Engineering Laboratory