BITUMINOUS PAVEMENT POLISHING

Eleven test strips containing replicate sections of bituminous pavements used in Pennsylvania were placed at the behest of a Joint Industry-PennDOT Task Force to investigate field performance of the aggregates. Fifty-two aggregate samples and 223 pavement cores of the test sections were polished in the laboratory by various methods. Laboratory-field data correlations indicate that the general level of skid resistance characteristics of surface aggregates may be determined in the laboratory and that aggregates are ranked similarly by both approaches. However, the correlations failed to produce regression equations that could, with confidence, define mathematical relationships for predicting specific field skid numbers.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Report on Automotive Research Program. Prepared in cooperation with Federal Highway Administration, Washington, D.C.
• Corporate Authors:

  Pennsylvania State University, University Park

  Department of Mechanical Engineering
  University Park, PA  United States  16802

  Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

  Bureau of Materials, Testing and Research, 1118 State State
  Harrisburg, PA  United States  17112

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Dahir, S H
  • Meyer, W E
• Publication Date: 1974-11

Media Info

• Pagination: 215 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aggregates; Bituminous pavements; Flexible pavements; Polished aggregates; Regression analysis; Roughness; Skid resistance; Skidding; Texture
• Uncontrolled Terms: Skid number
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Geotechnology; Highways; Materials; Pavements; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00137413
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: ARP-S66 Final Rpt.
• Files: TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Sep 16 1977 12:00AM