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Binder Production and Specification: Information from a South African Workshop
  • Publication no: AP-T45-06
  • ISBN: 1 921139 22 6
  • Published: 19 January 2006
A residential workshop on quality management in Durban, South Africa covered a number of subjects including refinery processes, bitumen and PMB manufacture, overseas trends in bitumen and PMB specifications, test methods, global quality management practices for bitumen, and an update on worker health and safety. The U.S. performance graded specification has serious shortcomings and various changes are being made to U.S. specifications. Work is being carried out in the U.S. to identify tests which address key performance requirements of binders. Europe has recently produced a harmonised standard based on conventional test methods and is working on a performance related specification due to be implemented by 2010. South African refineries provide full information on crude oil source, bitumen production route, tankage arrangements, quality control systems, etc. Such a system in Australia would help increase confidence in bitumen quality.
  • AP-T45/06 Binder Production and Specification: Information from a South African Workshop
  • EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
  • CONTENTS
  • TABLES
  • FIGURES
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 2. TRENDS IN U.S. SPECIFICATIONS
    • 2.1. Background
    • 2.2. Superpave Developments
      • 2.2.1. SHRP Plus
      • 2.2.2. Superpave Plus
      • 2.2.3. New Parameter to Indicate Rutting
      • 2.2.4. Low Temperature Property
      • 2.2.5. Fatigue Parameter
      • 2.2.6. Ageing
      • 2.2.7. Mixing and Compaction Temperatures
  • 3. PROGRESS WITH EUROPEAN SPECIFICATIONS
    • 3.1. Bitumen Specifications
      • 3.1.1. Comparison between the U.S. and European Systems
      • 3.1.2. First Generation Specifications
      • 3.1.3. Development of Second Generation Performance-Related Standards
      • 3.1.4. Test Methods Standardisation
      • 3.1.5. Data Collection and Validation
    • 3.2. PMB Specifications
    • 3.3. Summary
  • 4. BITUMEN AND PMB PRODUCTION
  • 5. QUALITY CONTROL OF BITUMEN
  • INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
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