Bitumen testing | Zlín

Testing of bitumens is carried out in Accredited Testing Laboratory No. 1007.1. This part of the laboratory acts as a reference workplace and has approximately 50 accredited test procedures. Thanks to the continuous modernisation of the equipment and the technical level of the staff, the laboratory participates in solving many tasks of the Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic and is considered a recognised workplace in the transport construction sector.

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SCOPE OF APPLICATION

bitumious binders
petroleum road bitumens
modified bitumens
diluted bitumens
bituminous emulsions
bituminous sealants for pouring cement concrete joints
bituminoues binders for the construction of elastic bridge closures
single and multi-component cold spoured sealants

SERVICE PROVIDED

Petroleum road bitumens
- Penetration with a needle
- Softening point by the ring-ball method
- Resistance to ageing
- Flash point
- Fraas breaking point
- Solubility in toluene or xylene
- Paraffin content
Modified bitumens
- Penetration with a needle
- Softening point by the Ring and Ball
- Ductility
- Reversible ductility
- Force ductility
- Pendulum cohesion test
- Fracture point according to Fraasse
- Density
- Cleveland flash point
- Storage stability at 180°C
- Resistance to ageing
Diluted bitumens
- Determination of the distillation characteristics of petroleum cut-back bitumen products
- Determination of the efflux time of petroleum cut-back bitumens
- Pensky-Martens flash point
Bituminous emulsions
- Apparent properties
- Particle polarity
- Friability with mineral filer
- Miscibility with cement
- Miscibility with filler
- Residue on sieve 0,5 mm
- Residue on sieve 0,5 mm (7 days storage)
- Penetrating power
- Binder content
- Oil distillate content
- Discharge time at 40°C, opening 2 mm, 4 mm
- Recovery of bituminous binder from emulsion by evaporation
- Stabilisation of recovered binder
- Softening point (Ring and Ball method) of recovered or stabilised binder
- Needle penetration of recovered or stabilised binder
- Reversible ductility of recovered or stabilised binder from bituminous emulsion modified with elastomer
- Pendulum cohesion of recovered or stabilised bituminous emulsion binder modified with elastomer or plastomer, as appropriate
- Determination of the pH value of bituminous emulsions
- Determination of the adhesivity of bituminous emulsions by water immersion test - Aggregate method
Bituminous jointing compounds for cement concrete joints
- Ring and ball softening point
- Cone penetration
- Density
- Penetration and elastic regeneration-resilience
- Stability when heated
- Creep resistance
- Resistance to immersion in hydrocarbon fuel
- Compatibility with asphalt cover
- Adhesion and cohesion by discontinuous extension (adherence test)
- Adhesion and cohesion following continuous extension and compression
Single and multi-component cold-poured sealants
- Extrudability
- Degree of curing
- Drying time
- Self-leveling ability
- Creep resistance
- Loss of volume
- Change in mass and volume after immersion in test liquid
- Resistance to hydrolysis
- Resistance to flame
- Cohesion
- Adhesion/cohesion by discontinuous extension
- Elastic recovery
- Adhesion and cohesive properties in continuous extension after immersion in chemical solutions
Oxidised bitumens
- Ring and ball softening point
- Penetration with a needle at 25°C
- Solubility in xylene
- Loss on heating
- Flash point
- Oil separation
- Density
- Dynamic viscosity

ITC RELATED SERVICES

CONTACTS

Ing. Jiří Růžička

Head of the testing laboratory for construction products

Ing. Petra Hrdinová

Head of AZL 1007.1

Ing. Radim Mikač

Testing Specialist

Ing. Lubomír Martiník, Ph.D.

Deputy director of Division CSI

Postal address - workplace Zlín:
Institut pro testování a certifikaci, a.s.
Building Testing Laboratory
Svit Campus, building 113
třída Tomáše Bati 5264
760 01 Zlín
Czech Republic

For actuality of data is responsible: Ing. Jiří Růžička

INSTITUT PRO TESTOVÁNÍ A CERTIFIKACI

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