Tire-Pavement Friction Characteristics with Elastic Properties of Asphalt Pavements

An Introduction to Tire/Pavement Noise of Asphalt Pavement

1.0 Introduction ..........................................................................................................................................................2 2.0 Relevant Topics in Sound and Acoustics ............................................................................................................... 2.1 Sound...............................................................

Rut Resistant Asphalt Pavements

The three major distress conditions affecting the performance of asphalt pavements are permanent deformation or rutting, fatigue or load associated cracking, and low temperature or thermal cracking. In an earlier technical topics article (Fall, 1998), we examined the causes of fatigue cracking and the importance of good compaction during construction to help minimize this type of distress. In t...

Onsite Use of Recycled Asphalt Pavement Materials and Geocells to Reconstruct Pavements Damaged by Heavy Trucks

Negative Texture, Positive for the Environment: Results of Horizontal Grinding of Asphalt Pavements

A pavement surface having its texture deflections mostly directed downwards is said to have a “negative texture” and is expected to result in positive tire/road noise and rolling resistance properties. Negative textures are typical of porous asphalt pavements, but another way to achieve this is to grind-off the top of the asperities of a rough-textured surface. This paper explores the applicati...

Effects of Warm-mix Asphalt Additives on Asphalt Mixture Characteristics and Pavement Performance

The primary objective of this research is to evaluate the feasibility of several WMA mixtures as potential asphalt paving mixtures for Nebraska pavements. To that end, three well-known WMA additives (i.e., Sasobit, Evotherm, and Advera synthetic zeolite) were evaluated. For a more realistic evaluation of the WMA approaches, trial pavement sections of the WMA mixtures and their HMA counterparts ...