FINAL PERFORMANCE REPORT ON EXPERIMENTAL USE OF THERMOPLASTIC PAVEMENT STRIPING MATERIALS

HOT-EXTRUDED THERMOPLASTIC STRIPING WAS EVALUATED BY MEANS OF FIELD TESTS AT NINE DIFFERENT SITES INCLUDING BITUMINOUS AND PORTLAND CEMENT CONCRETE SURFACES. PERFORMANCE AND THE RELATIVE ECONOMICS OF THE MATERIAL WAS COMPARED TO CONVENTIONAL PAINT OVER A PERIOD OF UP TO 7 YEARS. THE DURABILITY OF THERMOPLASTIC WAS EXCELLENT ON BITUMINOUS SURFACES AND GOOD TO POOR ON CONCRETE SURFACES. EPOXY PRIMERS, BUT WERE NOT CAPABLE OF PROMOTING GOOD BOND WHERE SURFACE LAITANCE CONDITIONS EXISTED. IT IS GENERALLY CONCLUDED THAT THERMOPLASTICS MAY PROVE ECONOMICAL WHEN PLACED ON BITUMINOUS SURFACES WITH HIGH VOLUMES OF TRAFFIC. SERVICE LIFE WOULD PROBABLY BE GOVERNED MORE BY THE FREQUENCY OF RESURFACING RATHER THAN PERFORMANCE. IT WOULD BE NECESSARY TO PLACE GREATER EMPHASIS ON FACTORS OTHER THAN DURABILITY IN ORDER TO JUSTIFY USE OF THERMOPLASTICS ON PORTLAND CEMENT CONCRETE SURFACES, REGARDLESS OF TRAFFIC DENSITIES. /BPR/

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.13023/KTC.RR.1970.290
• Corporate Authors:

  Kentucky Department Highways

  ,    

  Bureau of Public Roads /US

  400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Rahal, A S
  • Hughes, R D
• Publication Date: 1970-2

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bituminous materials; Durability; Economics; Field tests; Performance; Plastics; Portland cement concrete; Road markings; Service life; Striping; Surface treating; Thermoplastic materials
• Old TRIS Terms: Bituminous surfacing; Traffic marking
• Subject Areas: Design; Economics; Geotechnology; Highways; Materials; Pavements;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00215927
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Bureau of Public Roads /US
• Report/Paper Numbers: No. 64-18
• Files: TRIS, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jul 14 1970 12:00AM