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Truck Side / Longitudinal Friction Literature Review and Data Analysis
Truck Side / Longitudinal Friction Literature Review and Data Analysis
Practitioners have raised concerns when designing for heavy vehicles with respect to the combination of design values for side and longitudinal friction demand as well as design criteria for horizontal curves with adverse superelevation. This report…
National Specification for Crumb Rubber Binders in Asphalt and Seals
National Specification for Crumb Rubber Binders in Asphalt and Seals
Crumb rubber binders have been used to construct sprayed seals in Australia for many decades but have not been utilised in asphalt in the past. Due to the lack of crumb rubber binder grades in the Australian national polymer modified binder (PMB)…
Development of the Dynamic Shear Rheometer Consistency 6% Test Method for Polymer Modified Binders
Development of the Dynamic Shear Rheometer Consistency 6% Test Method for Polymer Modified Binders
This report describes research work into the development of a new test method utilising the dynamic shear rheometer (DSR) to conduct consistency 6% at 60 
Technical Basis of Austroads Guide to Pavement Technology Part 5: Pavement Evaluation and Treatment Design
Technical Basis of Austroads Guide to Pavement Technology Part 5: Pavement Evaluation and Treatment Design
This report documents the technical basis of the 2011 and 2019 editions of Austroads&rsquo
Technical Basis of Austroads Guide to Pavement Technology Part 2: Pavement Structural Design
Technical Basis of Austroads Guide to Pavement Technology Part 2: Pavement Structural Design
This report documents the technical basis of the 2010, 2012 and 2017 editions of Austroads&rsquo
Development of Performance-Based Specifications for Unbound Granular Materials: Part A: Issues and Recommendations
Development of Performance-Based Specifications for Unbound Granular Materials: Part A: Issues and Recommendations
The Austroads Member Authorities (AMAs) are developing a Performance Based Specification (PBS) approach to the specification of unbound granular materials in Australia and New Zealand. There has been general agreement to adopt the engineering…
Development of Performance-based Specifications for Unbound Granular Materials Part B: Use of RLT Test to Predict Performance
Development of Performance-based Specifications for Unbound Granular Materials Part B: Use of RLT Test to Predict Performance
The Austroads Member Authorities (AMAs) are developing a Performance Based Specification (PBS) approach to the specification of unbound granular materials in Australia and New Zealand. There has been general agreement to adopt the engineering…
Guidelines for Ensuring Specified Quality Performance in Bridge Construction
Guidelines for Ensuring Specified Quality Performance in Bridge Construction
Road networks represent a significant asset to governments in Australia and New Zealand. In Queensland the state controlled road network consists of some 33 000 km of road which contains around 2850 bridges and many thousands of culverts. The…
Progress Report on the 2002/03 National Asphalt Mix Design Program
Progress Report on the 2002/03 National Asphalt Mix Design Program
The report describes the work undertaken in the second year of a two year project to assist implementation of a new Australian asphalt mix design procedure. The main tasks undertaken were (i) publication of an update for the Australian Provisional…
Binders Research Program: 2001/2002 Progress Report
Binders Research Program: 2001/2002 Progress Report
Progress towards the development of an integrated specification for Bitumens, Multigrades and Polymer Modified Binders (PMBs) has been achieved by the Austroads Binders project group in 2001/2002. Contributions to this task have been made in the…
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