The ever increasing problem of wheel path rutting and excessive desification of asphaltic concrete pavement has been the subject of asphalt technology for quite sometime. It is known that the density of the pavement, which is significant for several reasons, increase subsequent to construction because of the traffic. Also, to be satisfactory, a pavement must contain some air voids, even in t he state of ultimate densitification; since the most obvious consequence of attaining zero air voids mass would be the flushing of bitumen to the surface which may result either due to temperature rise or the action of traffic.
The purpose of this investigation was to determine the changes in physical characteristics of asphaltic concrete pavement with traffic and compare the compactive effort applied in the laboratory with that induced by traffic.
The ever increasing problem of wheel path rutting and excessive desification of asphaltic concrete pavement has been the subject of asphalt technology...
This study found that, even though more research is needed in the correlation of laboratory mixing with pugmill mixing of hot mix asphalt, repeatabili...
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