ADVANCING ASPHALT TECHNOLOGY

The Strategic Highway Research Program is focusing on control of 6 specific factors that affect pavement performance: aging; permannent deformation (rutting); low-temperature (thermal) cracking; fatigue cracking; moisture sensitivity; and adhesion. The two principal products of the 5-year research program will be performance-based specifications for asphalt binder; and performance-based specifications for asphalt-aggregate mixtures. Each of these specifications is targeted toward control of the 6 important pavement performance factors. Performance-based specifications will allow pavement designers to select materials that attain improved levels of serviceability in each of these performance areas under specific traffic loading and environmental conditions.

• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/19451392
• Corporate Authors:

  American Road & Transportation Builders Association

  ARTBA Building, 1219 28th Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20007-3389
• Publication Date: 1990-5

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 16-17
• Serial:
  • Transportation Builder
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: American Road & Transportation Builders Association
  • ISSN: 1043-4054

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Adhesion; Asphalt pavements; Cracking; Fatigue (Physiological condition); Moisture content; Pavement cracking; Pavement design; Pavement performance; Performance based specifications; Research; Ruts (Pavements); Specifications; Thermal stresses
• Identifier Terms: Strategic Highway Research Program
• Uncontrolled Terms: Rut
• Old TRIS Terms: Aging; Thermal fracture
• Subject Areas: Highways; Materials; Pavements; Research; I31: Bituminous Binders and Materials;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00496390
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 31 1990 12:00AM