RUBBER ASPHALT BINDER "STRESS ABSORBING MEMBRANE INTERLAYER". FINAL EVALUATION REPORT

Experimental installations of rubber-asphalt binder stress absorbing membrane interlayers were evaluated for their ability to delay or prevent reflective alligator cracking. The final results are inconclusive in that after 10 years of service life neither the control sections paved without an interlayer or the remainder of the projects paved with the interlayer have shown any reflective alligator cracking. It is suspected that the thickness of the overlay in combination with the sound structure of the underlying pavement has masked any of the benefits of the interlayer.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/research/reports/fullreports/185.1.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Washington State Department of Transportation

  Transportation Building, 310 Maple Park Avenue SE, P.O. Box 47300
  Olympia, WA  United States  98504-7300

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Allison, R E
• Publication Date: 1989-3

Media Info

• Pagination: 6 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alligator cracking; Asphalt rubber; Energy absorbing materials; Experimental roads; Pavement overlays; Prevention; Reflection cracking; Stresses; Thickness
• Uncontrolled Terms: Stress absorbing membrane interlayers
• Old TRIS Terms: Alligatoring
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Pavements; Security and Emergencies; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00488580
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: WA-RD 185.1
• Files: TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Oct 31 1990 12:00AM