BITUMINOUS SURFACINGS FOR CLASSIFIED AND UNCLASSIFIED ROADS AND OTHER TRAFFICKED AREAS

BITUMINOESE BEFESTIGUNGEN IM STRASSEN- UND WEGEBAU SOWIE FUER SONSTIGE VERKEHRSFLAECHEN

SINCE THE END OF THE WAR THE PROPORTION OF BITUMINOUS SURFACING ON MOTORWAYS HAD RISEN FROM 9% TO 67.1% BY 1974. ON OTHER MAIN ROADS BITUMINOUS SURFACING EXISTED ON 95.2% OF THE ROAD NETWORK BY 1971. A NOTABLE ADVANCE IN BITUMINOUS ROAD CONSTRUCTION WAS THE INTRODUCTION OF THE BITUMINOUS ROAD BASE, WHICH TOGETHER WITH THE WEARING COURSE AND BASE COURSE MAKE UP THE MODERN ASPHALT PAVEMENT. BASE COURSE AND WEARING COURSE CONSIST MAINLY OF ROLLED ASPHALT, THE WEARING COURSE ALSO OF GUSSASPHALT, WHERE THE NECESSARY FACILITIES ARE AVAILABLE FOR ITS PRODUCTION. FOR HIGHLY STRESSED WEARING COURSES, CHIPPINGS - MASTIC ASPHALT SURFACINGS AND FINE GRAIN SURFACING FOR THIN COATINGS MAY BE CONSIDERED. THE MOST RECENT DEVELOPMENT IS THE ASPHALTIC SURFACING INCORPORATING PLASTIC MATERIAL, WHICH POSSESSES AN INCREASED RESISTANCE TO STATIC LOADING AT HIGH TEMPERATURES, TO WEAR, AND TO THE EFFECTS OF OIL AND FUELS. IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF FOOTPATHS, BITUMINOUS PAVEMENTS HAVE BEEN USED INSTEAD OF CONCRETE PAVEMENTS WHICH ARE SUSCEPTIBLE TO CHEMICAL ATTACK FROM SALT. FOR AGRICULTURAL ROADS STANDARD METHODS OF CONSTRUCTION FOR ROAD BASES AND SURFACINGS ARE EMPLOYED, WHICH ARE DIFFERENT FROM THOSE OF NORMAL ROAD CONSTRUCTION BECAUSE OF THE PARTICULAR FACTORS AFFECTING THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR.

• Authors:
  • Fuhrmann, W
• Publication Date: 1976

Language

• German

Media Info

• Pagination: 21-8
• Serial:
  • VDI-BERICHT
  • Issue Number: 252
  • Publisher: VDI-VERLAG GMBH

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Arterial highways; Base course (Pavements); Bituminous mixtures; Chippings; Farm roads; Flexible pavements; Freeways; Gussasphalt; Mastic asphalt; Plastics; Rolled asphalt; Surfacing; Thickness; Walkways; Wearing course (Pavements)
• ITRD Terms: 2990: Basecourse; 4967: Bituminous mixture; 4585: Chippings; 2793: Farm road; 2944: Flexible pavement; 2720: Footway; 4979: Gussasphalt; 2748: Main road; 2752: Motorway; 7454: Plastic material; 2961: Roadbase; 2972: Surfacing; 5933: Thickness; 4989: Walzasphalt; 2980: Wearing course
• Subject Areas: I31: Bituminous Binders and Materials; I52: Construction of Pavements and Surfacings;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01302744
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Forschungsgesellschaft für Straßen- und Verkehrswesen (FGSV)
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Nov 21 2010 8:48AM