Thickness design; full-depth asphalt pavement structures for highways and streets.

This manual is published for engineers who determine thickness requirements for asphalt pavement structures. The manual will also serve as a useful text for instruction of students in highway engineering. The manual presents methods for evaluating the factors that should be considered in the overall...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Asphalt Institute
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [College Park, Md.] : Asphalt Institute 1969.
Edition:8th ed.
Series:Manual series (Asphalt Institute) ; no. 1.
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Summary:This manual is published for engineers who determine thickness requirements for asphalt pavement structures. The manual will also serve as a useful text for instruction of students in highway engineering. The manual presents methods for evaluating the factors that should be considered in the overall thickness design of the asphalt pavement structure. It includes such important topics as traffic evaluation, subgrade soil evaluation, total thickness and layer thickness determination, compaction, drainage, and environmental effects.
Physical Description:ix, 86 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliography and index.