TESTING BITUMINOUS MATERIALS

THE PAPER DETAILS BRIEFLY THE ACCEPTED METHODS OF ANALYSING BITUMINOUS MATERIALS, AND GOES ON TO DESCRIBE AN EXERCISE CARRIED OUT IN LANCASHIRE WITH THE OBJECT OF DETERMINING WHICH OF THE NORMALLY USED METHODS WAS THE MOST SIMPLE TO OPERATE AND GAVE THE MOST CONSISTENTLY CORRECT ANSWERS. A NON-STANDARD "RAPID" METHOD OF TEST WAS ALSO USED BY THE LANCASHIRE COUNTY LABORATORY IN WHICH THE BINDER CONTENT WAS DETERMINED BY DIFFERENCE INSTEAD OF BY ALIQUOT PROPERTIES. EVIDENCE IS PUT FORWARD TO SUGGEST THAT THIS METHOD IS IN MANY INSTANCES MORE RAPID THAT ANY OF THE OTHER METHODS, AND THAT SINCE THE RESULTS ARE NOT AFFECTED BY EVAPORATION LOSSES, IT IS IN GENERAL MORE ACCURATE THAN THE EXISTING SPECIFIED "RAPID" METHODS OF TEST . THIS ALTERNATIVE METHOD HAS SINCE BEEN INCLUDED IN THE DRAFT BS 598 PRESENTLY AWAITING PUBLICATION, AND INCREASED USE OF THE METHOD MAY SHORTLY BE ANTICIPATED. IN THE WORK CARRIED OUT BY THE LANCASHIRE COUNTY LABORATORY THE FILTER PAPER USED IN THE PRESSURE FILTER HAS ALWAYS BEEN A WHATMAN NO. 1 AND NOT A NO. 5 AS SPECIFIED IN THE DRAFT BS. /AUTHOR/

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  Institution of Highway Engineers

  27 Earl Street
  Maidstone, Kent ME14 1PE,   England 
• Authors:
  • Day, JBA
• Publication Date: 1974-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Serial:
  • Highway Engineer
  • Volume: 21
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Whitehall Press Limited
  • ISSN: 0306-6452

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Binder content; Binders; Bituminous materials; Chemical analysis; Evaporation; Filters; Methodology; Paper; Test procedures
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Old TRIS Terms: Filter paper
• ITRD Terms: 4929: Binder content; 4955: Bituminous materials; 7163: Chemical analysis; 6288: Test method; 8119: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Highways; Materials; I31: Bituminous Binders and Materials;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00081704
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 27 1975 12:00AM