SIMPLIFIED DESIGN APPROACH TO SURFACE TREATMENTS FOR LOW-VOLUME ROADS

The use of surface treatment as an economical maintenance technique to preserve the service life of the existing pavements has increased substantially in recent years. Although many surface treatment design methods have been developed in the past on a rational basis, a vast majority of highway agencies, in both developed and developing countries, still use the quantities of binder and cover aggregate determined by experience and/or precedent and this often results in surface treatments that have poor performance characteristics. This is due primarily to the fact that most of these design methods involve time-consuming or complex test procedures and/or computations. A need was felt to develop a simplified rational design method especially for the low-volume, low-cost roads that could be used at the local level by the county maintenance managers and contractors. This has been accomplished in four phases: (a) literature review of the existing design procedures, (b) construction of field research projects, (c) laboratory experiments to correlate the complex and simple test properties of the materials, and (d) analysis of field and laboratory data to develop a simple nomographic design method. This design method has been used extensively for low-volume roads by the contractors and county maintenance forces in Pennsylvania during the 1980 and 1981 construction seasons with apparent success. (Author)

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• Authors:
  • Kandhal, Prithvi S
• Conference:
  • Third International Conference on Low-Volume Roads
  • Location: Tempe Arizona, United States
  • Date: 1983-7-24 to 1983-7-28
• Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 325-333
• Monograph Title: LOW-VOLUME ROADS: THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, 1983
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 898
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data analysis; Design methods; Low volume roads; Mathematical analysis; Reviews; Surface treating
• Subject Areas: Design; Geotechnology; Highways; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00376567
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309035112
• Report/Paper Numbers: N908
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Aug 30 1983 12:00AM