INTERIM REPORT OF PAVEMENT SURFACE RECYCLING ON PARKS HIGHWAY BETWEEN LITTLE SUSITNA RIVER AND WILLOW CREEK

Rehabilitation had been proposed for 14.5 miles of the Parks Highway (State Route 3) between the Little Susitna River (MP 56.9) and Willow Creek (MP 71.4) due to severe cracking and aggregate loss. It had been originally paved 24 feet wide with 2 inches of asphalt concrete on a 6 inch base in 1965 when traffic amounted to only 200 vehicles per day. By 1976, when the pavement evaluation was conducted, traffic had increased to 3,000 vehicles per day with 7% trucks. Over 8,000 vehicles per day are predicted by 1995. The pavement evaluation consisted of a visual condition survey, a deflection survey and core sampling and testing. It was obvious that severe reflective cracking would occur within a very short time after placement of the overlay unless the brittle, cracked pavement was pretreated or replaced. The only certain way to prevent reflection cracking is to remove and replace the cracked pavement with either recycled or virgin material.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • The cover title for this project is Recycling Asphalt Pavements. Anchorage, Alaska, and the publication date on the cover is August 1978.
• Corporate Authors:

  Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities

  3132 Channel Drive
  Juneau, AK  United States  99801-7898

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Henry, J W
• Publication Date: 1978-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Tables;
• Pagination: 31 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aggregate mixtures; Asphalt cement; Asphalt pavements; Brittleness; Highways; Overlays (Pavements); Parks; Pavement cracking; Penetration resistance; Recycled materials; Reflection cracking; Rehabilitation (Maintenance); Surface course (Pavements); Surface treating
• Geographic Terms: Alaska
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Materials; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00803510
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Project RF-F-035-1(24),, FHWA-DP-39-5,, DOT FH-15-235
• Files: TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Dec 8 2001 12:00AM