One of the main objectives of the Roads, Railways and Airports Laboratory is to provide third parties with opinions on the suitability or otherwise of materials to be used in the construction of civil engineering structures and transport infrastructures.
The Roads Railways Airports Laboratory is authorized by law to issue official certificates, in compliance with Italian and European acceptance standards regarding the quality of materials used in the construction of civil engineering works and for transport infrastructures.The Roads, Railways, Airports Laboratory operates as a research facility in the field of soils for applications in transport infrastructures, as well as in the field of characterization of bituminous conglomerates, of their constituent elements (inert and binder), cement and bituminous mixtures, up to the monitoring of the functionality parameters (adherence, regularity, load-bearing capacity) of road superstructures (through high-performance tests).
The integrated use of innovative techniques and instruments, available at the Laboratory, allows for a complete knowledge framework of the degradation of materials used in road infrastructures, also through the execution of traffic surveys with the aid of automatic vehicle flow detectors.
The previous lines of research have recently been joined by the investigation of advanced maintenance techniques for road and railway structures (bridges, viaducts, junctions, etc.) in order to develop extensive intervention techniques capable of requalifying and re-functionalizing the infrastructure assets. This field of research requires the identification of innovative techniques and technologies that are only possible through experimentation and simulation of the behavior of materials in highly specialized laboratories.
The Laboratory routinely carries out tests on behalf of third parties for companies and public and private clients. On some occasions of particular technical and scientific importance, collaboration agreements, research protocols and others are signed, among which an excerpt is reported below.
The Roads Railways Airports Laboratory is part of the Kore Platform research facility at the Santa Panasia campus of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture. The Structure Manager is assisted by the Laboratory Manager; the latter coordinates the activities of the test personnel.
Roads, Railways and Airports Laboratory
areadidatticaericerca@unikore.it
0935 536356
Kore Platform Building – Santa Panasia Science and Technology Center, 94100 – Enna
