Asphalt Concrete Materials & Mix Design (CCC-01) Course Outline

Day 1

  • Functionality of Asphalt Pavement

    • Safety-skid
    • Smooth
    • Life cycle cost
    • Resistance to traffic and climate
    • Constructability

  • Distress mechanism - traffic and climate

    • Rutting
    • Low temp cracking
    • Fatigue Cracking
    • Age-related cracking
    • Moisture Sensitivity
    • Relative influence of mix design and construction, and construction design, appropriate structural design

Day 2 

  • Material Components

    • Aggregate Properties
      • Description and test methods: texture, shape, gradation, maximum size (relationship to compactability), chemical durability, mechanical durability, surface chemistry
    • Asphalt Binder Properties
      • Stiffness, Master curve, aging, elastic recovery, modification
    • RAP Properties
      • What is RAP?
      • Properties of asphalt and aggregate in RAP
      • Asphalt blending process
      • Recycling agents
    • Mix Properties for different applications
    • Dense, Gap, Open
      • Asphalt and aggregate proportioning to get mix properties
        • Basics
        • Volumetric
        • Balanced mix design concept and performance-related tests
    • RAP inclusion in mix-blended binder and aggregate

Day 3

  • Mix Design – Superpave

    • Basic concepts, where, when it came from
    • Procedure
    • Testing
    • Iterative Process

Day 4

  • Mix Design - Asphalt Rubber Mix Design and Open Graded Mix Design

    • Asphalt Rubber
      • Basic concepts, where, when it came from
      • Testing
      • Iterative Process
    • Open Graded
      • Basic concepts
      • Testing
      • Iterative process

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