Pavement Notebook
Chapter 4: Asphalt Pavements
Guidance
- Overview of Project Selection Guidelines for Cold In-place and Cold Central Plant Pavement Recycling (.pdf) (November, 2017)
- Techbrief: Tack Coat Best Practices (.pdf) (April, 2016)
- Recycled Asphalt Shingles Used in Asphalt Pavement (11/12/14)
- Recycled Materials in Asphalt Pavements (10/20/2014)
- Surface Texture for Asphalt and Concrete Pavements (T 5040.36) (June, 2005)
- Open Graded Friction Courses (T 5040.31) (December, 1990)
Information
- Index-Based Tests for Performance Engineered Mixture Designs for Asphalt Pavements (.pdf) (December, 2019)
- TechBrief: The Use of Thin Asphalt Overlays for Pavement Preservation (.pdf) (June 2019)
- FHWA Division Office Survey on State Highway Agency Usage of Reclaimed Asphalt Shingles: Quantities, Trends, Requirements, and Direction - Results from May 2017 (.pdf) (February, 2018)
- Testing for Fatigue Cracking in the Asphalt Mixture Performance Tester - Large Specimen Testing (.pdf) (August, 2016)
- TechBrief: Porous Asphalt Pavements with Stone Reservoirs (.pdf) (April, 2015)
- TechBrief: The Use of Recycled Tire Rubber to Modify Asphalt Binder and Mixtures (.pdf) (September, 2014)
- Asphalt Material Characterization for AASHTOWare® Pavement ME Design Using an Asphalt Mixture Performance Tester (AMPT) (.pdf) (September, 2013)
- TechBrief: Asphalt Mixture Performance Tester (AMPT) - Large Specimen Dynamic Modulus (.pdf) (February, 2013)
- TechBrief: An Alternative Asphalt Binder, Sulfur-Extended Asphalt (SEA) (.pdf) (May, 2012)
- The Use and Performance of Asphalt Binder Modified with Polyphosphoric Acid (PPA) (.pdf) (March, 2012)
- Quality Base Material Produced Using Full Depth Reclamation on Existing Asphalt Pavement Structure (.pdf) (December, 2011)
- TechBrief: The Multiple Stress Creep Recovery (MSCR) Procedure (.pdf) (April, 2011)
- TechBrief: A Review of Aggregate and Asphalt Mixture Specific Gravity Measurements and Their Impacts on Asphalt Mix Design Properties and Mix Acceptance (FHWA-HIF-11-033) (.pdf) (December, 2010)
- TechBrief: Superpave Gyratory Compactors (FHWA-HIF-11-032) (.pdf) (December, 2010)
- TechBrief: Superpave Mix Design and Gyratory Compaction Levels (FHWA-HIF-11-031) (.pdf) (December, 2010)
- FHWA & NAPA Information Series 128: HMA Pavement Mix Type Selection Guide (.pdf) (January, 2001)
- Crumb Rubber Modifier