Repotenciación de los equipos de ensayos asfálticos y pavimentos existentes en el departamento de ingeniería de materiales de construcción y mecánica de suelos, en la Universidad Técnica de Manabí

Abstract

This work was conducted in the Portoviejo city, Department of Materials Engineering Construction and Soil Mechanics, Technical University of Manabí, in the form of community work entitled "Repowering of asphalt testing and pavement equipment", the purpose was to identify the existing equipment in the laboratory, in order to make a selection of the most necessary ones, which are used in the students practice. This project is focused on the acquisition of soil testing equipment that serve to conduct investigations and tasks according to current professional standards. The implementation of this laboratory equipment is very important because different types of daily practices of soil, concrete and asphalt are made, which allow students to put into practice everything learned in the classrooms, so we proceeded to dialogue with the Head of Department to verify the required equipment or to identify the most obsolete ones; considering the amount based on the number of students who performed daily laboratory practices, as for the high demand of students who are in career they all cannot practice at the same time.