Publications

This webinar, presented on 31 October 2018, provides an overview of the key changes to the Guide to Pavement Technology Parts 4F and 4K, and the significant advances in the areas of binder specifications and sprayed seal design.

The Australian polymer modified binder (PMB) specification (AGPT/T190) currently requires different binder grades to be used in sprayed sealing and asphalt applications. This study compared the performance of PMBs representing four AGPT/T190 grades…

Austroads has produced a series of test methods developed from various technical projects, principally in the bituminous materials area (asphalt, binders, slurry and sprayed seals). The Austroads system of managing the test methods has enabled…

This Specification Framework for Polymer Modified Binders (PMBs) and Multigrade Bitumens has been produced by an Austroads Project Group. The specification is based on a set of test procedures that have been in use throughout Australia for several…

A residential workshop on quality management in Durban, South Africa covered a number of subjects including refinery processes, bitumen and PMB manufacture, overseas trends in bitumen and PMB specifications, test methods, global quality management…

An existing model predicted binder life by combining a binder hardening (increase in viscosity) model and a distress viscosity model. Inputs for the two models were site temperature parameters, binder durability (resistance to hardening) and seal…