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Hot Mix Asphalt Longitudinal Joint Evaluation, Annette Porter
Hot Mix Asphalt Longitudinal Joint Evaluation, Annette Porter
Civil Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
Longitudinal joints are the portion of the road where two lanes meet and are formed because the lanes are paved at different times. Longitudinal joints tend to be the weakest portion of the roadway, and yet few regulations exist to control their quality. Currently, Arkansas specifications for asphalt pavement do not include any requirements for the measurement of joint quality. The purpose of this research project is to determine the most effective method for evaluating longitudinal joints in hot-mix asphalt (HMA) pavements. Most of the literature concerning longitudinal joints focuses on density as the determining factor of quality because density …