NATURAL RUBBER IN ROAD SURFACINGS

Rubberized road surfacings have a longer service life under normal conditions, and show to special advantages in tough conditions such as those encountered at bus stops, roundabouts, shifting foundations, air strips, and in tropical and arctic conditions. Research on rubberised road materials, which has included the laying of numerous full-scale road experiments, has shown that in surface- dressing, rubber prevents fatting-up in hot weather under heavy traffic, and eliminates rolled asphalt cracking. Improvement of 30 to 50 percent in the life of bitumen Macadam open-textured carpets has been noted when rubber was used. The physical and mechanical properties of rubber-bitumen are outlined, the preparation of rubber bitumen is described, and details are given of rubber in surface dressing, in mastic asphalt, in bituminous premix surfacings, and in bituminous emulsion. Rubberised tar, rubber for bridge surfacings, storage and costs are also discussed.

• Corporate Authors:

  Malaysian Rubber Producers' Research Association

  19 Backingham Street
  London WC2,   England 
• Publication Date: 1964-11

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; Photos; Tables;
• Pagination: 24 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airport runways; Bituminous macadam; Bus stops; Costs; Elastomers; Handling and storage; Mastic asphalt; Pavement cracking; Pavement surface course; Premixing; Rolled asphalt; Rubber; Service life; Storage facilities; Surfacing; Tar; Tropics
• Geographic Terms: Arctic Regions
• Old TRIS Terms: Arctic area; Elastomer modified tars; Mastics
• Subject Areas: Design; Finance; Freight Transportation; Highways; Materials; Pavements; Public Transportation; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00129604
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: No. 9 Tech. Bltn
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 14 1976 12:00AM