SKID RESISTANCE. METHOD FOR ITS RESTORATION & MAINTENANCE REVIEWED AT PIARC CONGRESS

Information obtained from ten countries on the maintenance of safe standards of skidding resistance on heavily trafficked high speed roads, formed the subject of a report presented at the Permanent International Association of Road Congresses XVth World Road Congress, Mexico City, October 1975. Reasons given for the loss of road surface rugosity included increased traffic flows, excess binder, polished aggregates, penetration of chippings into rolled asphalt and the effect of wear by studded tyres. The techniques reported as being used to restore skid resistance are divided in this paper into two groups as firstly techniques which involve the removal of material, and secondly those techniques which involve the addition of materials. Techniques in the first group are defined under the headings of bush hammering, milling, grooving, hydrochloric acids, sanding, flame scouring and planing; and in the second group reheating, resinous layers, surface dressing, slurry sealing and open-textured wearing courses. The application of these techniques to both bituminous and concrete surfaces are considered in this paper. /TRRL/

• Corporate Authors:

  Embankment Press

  3 Caledonian Road
  London,   England 
• Authors:
  • SALTER, R J
• Publication Date: 1976

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 12-14
• Serial:
  • Highways and Road Construction International
  • Volume: 44
  • Issue Number: 1794
  • Publisher: Embankment Press

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aggregates; Binder content; Binders; Bituminous materials; Chippings; Concrete; High speed ground transportation; High speed vehicles; Highways; Maintenance; Pavement grooving; Polished aggregates; Rolled asphalt; Safety; Seal coats; Skid resistance; Smoothness; Speed; Standards; Studded tires; Surface course (Pavements); Surface treating; Texture; Traffic density; Traffic flow; Wear
• Geographic Terms: Belgium; France; Germany; Japan; Netherlands; Poland; Sweden; Switzerland; United Kingdom; United States
• Old TRIS Terms: Bituminous surfacing; Hammering; Rugosity
• ITRD Terms: 4577: Aggregate; 8008: Belgium; 4929: Binder content; 4585: Chippings; 3071: Evenness; 8036: France; 8125: Germany; 3020: Grooving; 8053: Japan; 8078: Netherlands; 3040: Non skid treatment; 8089: Poland; 3822: Polishing; 3031: Skid resistance; 5408: Speed; 1382: Studded tyre; 2984: Surface dressing; 8109: Sweden; 8110: Switzerland; 671: Traffic flow; 8119: United Kingdom; 8122: USA; 5293: Wear
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; Railroads; Safety and Human Factors; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00138875
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 26 1976 12:00AM