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Course Discription |
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Pavement types (flexible & rigid), Flexible pavement materials: (bituminous materials, aggregate, and soil) properties, testing, and evaluation; Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) mix design ( Marshall and Superpave methods); Traffic and traffic assessment, Flexible pavement structural design (AASHTO 1993 method); Production, transportation, laying and compaction of hot mix asphalt; Quality control of production and acceptance of HMA mixes; Introduction to new advances in asphalt mix design (Performance-Engineered Mix Design [PEMD] method) and pavement structural design (AASHTO ME method). |