Bituminous Mixes, Concrete Pavements and Structures, Testing, and Construction Prices: Fid-Bau Portal

Bituminous Mixes, Concrete Pavements and Structures, Testing, and Construction Prices

The 17 papers in this report deal with the following areas: performance of open-graded asphaltic concrete friction courses in Arizona; performance comparison between a conventional overlay and a heater-scarification overlay; analysis and repair of water-damaged bituminous pavement; rational approach to design of bituminous stockpile patching mixtures; asphalt mixtures; comparative analysis of characterization for design; characteristics and performance of asphalt-rubber material containing a blend of reclaim and crumb rubber; modification of paving asphalts by digestion with scrap rubber; effect of aggregate top size on asphalt emulsion mixture properties; overview of pay-adjustment factors for asphalt concrete mixtures; texturing of cement concrete pavements by chip sprinkling the fresh concrete; magnitude of horizontal movement in jointed concrete pavements; design for minimizing detrimental vibrations from construction blasts; behavior and repair of deteriorated reinforced concrete beams; repair of torsionally inadequate concrete beams by use of adhesively bonded plates (abridgement); development of a construction price index for major public transit investment planning; nondestructive monitoring of chloride in bridge decks with a mobile neutron-gamma spectrometer; development of an improved automated nuclear backscatter gage.