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Testing Asphalt in Accordance with the Austroads Mix Design Procedures
  • Publication no: AP-T100-08
  • ISBN: 978-1-921329-90-6
  • Published: 14 August 2008
This document provides advice for users designing asphalt mixes using the Austroads mix design procedures. The advice given should enable users to produce repeatable and valid results. The tests covered in this document are; bulk and maximum densities, resilient modulus, dynamic creep, drain-off, stripping potential, fatigue and wheel tracking. It also covers; sample geometry, maintaining and calibrating test devices, how to conduct the tests, how to interpret results and how to establish whether results are valid. Due to the evolving nature of some of the tests some of the information may become superseded.
  • AP-T100/08 TESTING ASPHALT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AUSTROADS MIX DESIGN PROCEDURES
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
    • 1.1. Background
  • Australian / New Zealand Standard Test Methods
  • Austroads Standard Test Methods
  • 2. VOLUMETRIC PROPERTIES
    • 2.1. Background
    • 2.2. Bulk Density
    • 2.3. Maximum Density
    • 2.4. Voids and Density Relationships
    • 2.5. Larger Samples
  • 3. RESILIENT MODULUS
    • 3.1. Background
    • 3.2. Specimen Requirements
    • 3.3. Equipment
    • 3.4. Test Procedure
    • 3.5. Calibration
    • 3.6. Monitoring of Test Temperature
    • 3.7. Interpretation of Results
  • 4. DYNAMIC CREEP
    • 4.1. Background
    • 4.2. Specimen Requirements
    • 4.3. Equipment
    • 4.4. Test Procedure
    • 4.5. Adjustment of a MATTA
    • 4.6. Monitoring of Test Temperature
    • 4.7. Importance of Void Content
    • 4.8. Interpretation of Results
  • 5. DRAIN-OFF
    • 5.1. Background
    • 5.2. Test Sample
    • 5.3. Equipment
    • 5.4. Test Procedure
    • 5.5. Test Temperatures
    • 5.6. Calibration
    • 5.7. Interpretation of Results
  • 6. PARTICLE LOSS
    • 6.1. Background
    • 6.3. Equipment
    • 6.4. Test Procedure
    • 6.5. Test Temperature
    • 6.6. Calibration
    • 6.7. Interpretation of Results
  • Test Specimens
  • 7. STRIPPING POTENTIAL OF ASPHALT – TENSILE STRENGTH RATIO
    • 7.1. Background
    • 7.2. Test Specimens
    • 7.3. Equipment
    • 7.4. Test Procedure
    • 7.5. Test Temperature
    • 7.6. Calibration
    • 7.7. Interpretation of Results
  • 8. FATIGUE
    • 8.1. Background
    • 8.2. Test Sample
    • 8.3. Test Equipment
    • 8.4. Test Temperatures
    • 8.5. Test Procedure
    • 8.6. Calibration
    • 8.7. Maintenance
    • 8.8. Interpretation of Results
  • 9. WHEEL TRACKING
    • 9.1. Background
    • 9.2. Specimen Requirements
    • 9.3. Equipment
    • 9.4. Test Procedure
    • 9.5. Temperature Monitoring
    • 9.6. Calibration
    • 9.7. Maintenance
    • 9.8. Interpretation of Results
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