Publications

Austroads has completed its project APT6305 Use of Road-grade Recycled Plastics for Sustainable Asphalt Pavements which was investigating road-grade recycled plastics that can be used to construct and maintain asphalt roads. The project results are…

This report is Part B of the third report for the APT6305 project. The first report examined road-grade recycled plastics in asphalt pavements and investigated the most suitable types of recycled plastics for incorporation into the asphalt. The…

This webinar, presented by Dr Negin Zhalehjoo, Andrew Papacostas and Dr Didier Bodin, focuses on the outcomes of an Austroads research project &ldquo

This report documents a project to develop a new laboratory fatigue relationship to predict the performance of foamed bitumen stabilised (FBS) materials. The project focused on extensive laboratory experiments including indirect tensile testing and…

This report presents an extensive literature review of pavement surface texture measurement methods with a specific interest in how they affect operator safety and delays to traffic. The literature review shows that there are a number of methods in…

In 1993, Austroads performed an extensive trial of foamed bitumen sprayed sealing in Australia, as a part of environmental and energy effective sealing technology development program. The trials were conducted in various states and reported to be…

This report reviewed overseas and Australian experience in using bitumen emulsions. Increasing economic and environmental pressures have induced an increase in demand for the use of bitumen emulsions overseas. However, emulsion sprayed seals are…

A review of bleeding or flushed seals was undertaken to determine what physical changes had taken place within the seal that had resulted in the binder lying at or close to the surface. The evaluation process used a visual appraisal and a digital…

This publication describes the development of the flexible overlay design procedures included in the Austroads Guide to Pavement Technology Part 5: Pavement Evaluation and Treatment Design. The origins of two procedures are detailed: a design chart…

The study involved a laboratory assessment of two cemented materials to assess their strength, modulus and fatigue properties. The cemented materials consisted of a hornfels crushed rock and a quartzite siltstone bound with general purpose cement at…