Cooper Research Technology is a British company and one of the world leaders in the design and manufacture of high performance testing equipment for civil engineering materials. The Nottingham Asphalt Tester (NAT), designed in the 1980’s by our founder Keith Cooper whilst working at the University of Nottingham, was the first of its type. Since then our product range has increased steadily and now includes Gyratory Compactors and Roller Compactors to prepare and compact specimens in addition to Servo Hydraulic and Servo Pneumatic Universal Testers, Triaxial Testers, Fatigue Systems and Wheel Trackers to perform standards. Read more
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TRB 2022
We are pleased to invite you to 101st TRB Annual Meeting, which will be held in Washington, D.C between January 9 to 13, 2022. You are cordially invited to visit us at stand 431. We'll be launching our new Asphalt Dynamix range of equipment at the show. Be the first...
Research project supported by Cooper that could fix pothole problem forever
Research project supported by Cooper that could fix pothole problem foreverCooper Research Technology is proud to be supporting the Pothole Research Project led by Mujib Rahman PhD CEng FICE FCIHT FHEA at Aston University and Thom Nick of the University of Nottingham....
Perform better with Balanced Mix Design
The original intention of the Superpave mix design method was to test trial mix designs with performance tests similar to what the Hveem method does with the stabilometer, or the Marshall method does with the stability and flow tests, but the flow time and dynamic...