Development of Indiana’s SPS9-A Site [Technical Summary]

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• Creators:
  Olek, Jan
• Corporate Creators:
  Purdue University. Joint Transportation Research Program
• Corporate Contributors:
  Indiana Department of Transportation ; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Aggregates Asphalt Pavements Bituminous Binders Core Samples Cracking Of Asphalt Concrete Pavements Critical Cracking Temperature Deformation Distress Survey Field Tests Hot Mix Asphalt Interstate Highways Laboratory Tests Low Temperature Low Temperature Cracking Mix Design Pavement Distress Performance Tests Properties Of Materials Recovered Binders Recycled Materials Rutting Superpave Weather Station

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• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA/IN/JTRP-2003/17
• Resource Type:
  Brief
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States ; Indiana
• Edition:
  Technical Summary
• Corporate Publisher:
  Indiana Department of Transportation
• Abstract:
  The SUPERPAVE system introduced the concept of performance-based binder selection process, in which the binder is required to satisfy certain performance-based criteria within a temperature range of interest and traffic conditions that are specific to the pavement location. The temperature range of interest depends on the yearly maximum and minimum air and pavement temperatures occurring at the location. To validate the SUPERPAVE Binder Selection Program and to provide data for long term field validation of the SUPERPAVE methodology, SPS9-A sites were constructed in different parts of the country. Indiana’s SPS9-A site was one such study, in which six different test sections were constructed at a 2.5-km long study site. Four of test sections (S-64-28, S-5828, S-70-28 and S-70-28) were built with the same job-mix formula (JMF), but with different binder grades. PG64-28 was the recommended binder grade based on weather and expected traffic conditions at the site. To evaluate the influence of binder grade on the rutting performance, PG58-28 and PG70-28 were used in two of the test sections. PG64-16 was used in one section to study the influence of binder grade on low-temperature cracking. In addition to these four sections, one section (M-AC-20) was built with AC-20 using Marshall mix design to compare the performance of the older mix design methodology with the newly introduced SUPERPAVE.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  SPR-2148
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
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