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Asphalt concrete

Index Asphalt concrete

Asphalt concrete (commonly called asphalt, blacktop, or pavement in North America, and tarmac or bitumen macadam in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland) is a composite material commonly used to surface roads, parking lots, airports, and the core of embankment dams. [1]

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  1. 56 relations: Aerodrome, Airport, Airport apron, Asphalt plant, Binder (material), Bitumen, Bleeding (roads), Carbon dioxide, Chipseal, Clay, Composite material, Concrete, Construction aggregate, Crocodile cracking, Ditch, Edward de Smedt, Embankment dam, Emulsion, Fatigue (material), Federal Highway Administration, Fossil fuel, Frost heaving, Frost law, Full depth recycling, Geogrid, Highway, Kerosene, Kinetic energy, Long-Term Pavement Performance, New Jersey Turnpike, Parking lot, Particulates, Pavement management, Pavement milling, Permeable paving, Petroleum, Polymer, Portland cement, Pothole, Race track, Road surface, Roadway noise, Rubblization, Rut (roads), Sealcoat, Silt, Sound, Stone mastic asphalt, Storm drain, Subbase (pavement), ... Expand index (6 more) »

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Aerodrome

An aerodrome is a location from which aircraft flight operations take place, regardless of whether they involve air cargo, passengers, or neither, and regardless of whether it is for public or private use.

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Airport

An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport.

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Airport apron

The airport apron, apron, flight line, or ramp is the area of an airport where aircraft are parked, unloaded or loaded, refueled, boarded, or maintained.

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Asphalt plant

An asphalt plant is a plant used for the manufacture of asphalt, macadam and other forms of coated roadstone, sometimes collectively known as blacktop or asphalt concrete. Asphalt concrete and asphalt plant are asphalt.

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Binder (material)

A binder or binding agent is any material or substance that holds or draws other materials together to form a cohesive whole mechanically, chemically, by adhesion or cohesion.

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Bitumen

Bitumen is an immensely viscous constituent of petroleum. Asphalt concrete and Bitumen are asphalt, Building materials and pavements.

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Bleeding (roads)

Bleeding or flushing is shiny, black surface film of asphalt on the road surface caused by upward movement of asphalt in the pavement surface. Asphalt concrete and Bleeding (roads) are asphalt, pavements and road construction.

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Carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.

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Chipseal

Chipseal (also chip seal or chip and seal) is a pavement surface treatment that combines one or more layers of asphalt with one or more layers of fine aggregate. Asphalt concrete and Chipseal are Building materials and pavements.

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Clay

Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al2Si2O5(OH)4).

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Composite material

A composite material (also called a composition material or shortened to composite, which is the common name) is a material which is produced from two or more constituent materials.

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Concrete

Concrete is a composite material composed of aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement that cures to a solid over time. Asphalt concrete and Concrete are Building materials and pavements.

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Construction aggregate

Construction aggregate, or simply aggregate, is a broad category of coarse- to medium-grained particulate material used in construction, including sand, gravel, crushed stone, slag, recycled concrete and geosynthetic aggregates. Asphalt concrete and construction aggregate are concrete and pavements.

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Crocodile cracking

Crocodile cracking (also called alligator cracking and perhaps misleadingly fatigue cracking) is a common type of distress in asphalt pavement.

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Ditch

A ditch is a small to moderate trench created to channel water.

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Edward de Smedt

Edward Joseph de Smedt was a Belgian-American inventor of asphalt concrete.

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Embankment dam

An embankment dam is a large artificial dam.

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Emulsion

An emulsion is a mixture of two or more liquids that are normally immiscible (unmixable or unblendable) owing to liquid-liquid phase separation.

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Fatigue (material)

In materials science, fatigue is the initiation and propagation of cracks in a material due to cyclic loading.

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Federal Highway Administration

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is a division of the United States Department of Transportation that specializes in highway transportation.

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Fossil fuel

A fossil fuel is a carbon compound- or hydrocarbon-containing material such as coal, oil, and natural gas, formed naturally in the Earth's crust from the remains of prehistoric organisms (animals, plants and planktons), a process that occurs within geological formations.

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Frost heaving

Frost heaving (or a frost heave) is an upwards swelling of soil during freezing conditions caused by an increasing presence of ice as it grows towards the surface, upwards from the depth in the soil where freezing temperatures have penetrated into the soil (the freezing front or freezing boundary).

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Frost law

Frost laws are seasonal restrictions on traffic weight limits and speeds on roadways subject to thaw weakening.

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Full depth recycling

Full depth recycling or full depth reclamation (FDR) is a process that rebuilds worn out asphalt pavements by recycling the existing roadway. Asphalt concrete and full depth recycling are pavements.

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Geogrid

A geogrid is geosynthetic material used to reinforce soils and similar materials.

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Highway

A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land.

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Kerosene

Kerosene, or paraffin, is a combustible hydrocarbon liquid which is derived from petroleum.

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Kinetic energy

In physics, the kinetic energy of an object is the form of energy that it possesses due to its motion.

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Long-Term Pavement Performance

Long-Term Pavement Performance Program, known as LTPP, is a research project supported by Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to collect and analyze pavement data in the United States and Canada. Asphalt concrete and Long-Term Pavement Performance are asphalt and pavements.

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New Jersey Turnpike

The New Jersey Turnpike (NJTP) is a system of controlled-access highways in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Parking lot

A parking lot (American English) or car park (British English), also known as a car lot, is a cleared area intended for parking vehicles.

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Particulates

Particulates or atmospheric particulate matter (see below for other names) are microscopic particles of solid or liquid matter suspended in the air.

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Pavement management

Pavement management is the process of planning the maintenance and repair of a network of roadways or other paved facilities in order to optimize pavement conditions over the entire network. Asphalt concrete and pavement management are road construction.

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Pavement milling

Pavement milling (cold planing, asphalt milling, or profiling) is the process of removing at least part of the surface of a paved area such as a road, bridge, or parking lot. Asphalt concrete and Pavement milling are road construction.

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Permeable paving

Permeable paving surfaces are made of either a porous material that enables stormwater to flow through it or nonporous blocks spaced so that water can flow between the gaps. Asphalt concrete and Permeable paving are Building materials and pavements.

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Petroleum

Petroleum or crude oil, also referred to as simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations.

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Polymer

A polymer is a substance or material consisting of very large molecules linked together into chains of repeating subunits.

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Portland cement

Portland cement is the most common type of cement in general use around the world as a basic ingredient of concrete, mortar, stucco, and non-specialty grout. Asphalt concrete and Portland cement are Building materials and concrete.

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Pothole

A pothole is a depression in a road surface, usually asphalt pavement, where traffic has removed broken pieces of the pavement. Asphalt concrete and pothole are road construction.

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Race track

A race track (racetrack, racing track or racing circuit) is a facility built for racing of vehicles, athletes, or animals (e.g. horse racing or greyhound racing).

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Road surface

A road surface (British English) or pavement (North American English) is the durable surface material laid down on an area intended to sustain vehicular or foot traffic, such as a road or walkway. Asphalt concrete and road surface are pavements.

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Roadway noise

Roadway noise is the collective sound energy emanating from motor vehicles.

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Rubblization

Rubblization is a construction and engineering technique that involves saving time and transportation costs by reducing existing concrete into rubble at its current location rather than hauling it to another location.

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Rut (roads)

A rut is a depression or groove worn into a road or path by the travel of wheels or skis. Asphalt concrete and rut (roads) are road construction.

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Sealcoat

Sealcoating, or pavement sealing, is the process of applying a protective coating to asphalt-based pavements to provide a layer of protection from the elements: water, oils, and U.V. damage. Asphalt concrete and Sealcoat are asphalt and pavements.

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Silt

Silt is granular material of a size between sand and clay and composed mostly of broken grains of quartz.

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Sound

In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.

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Stone mastic asphalt

Stone mastic asphalt (SMA), also called stone-matrix asphalt, was developed in Germany in the 1960s with the first SMA pavements being placed in 1968 near Kiel. Asphalt concrete and stone mastic asphalt are pavements.

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Storm drain

A storm drain, storm sewer (United Kingdom, U.S. and Canada), surface water drain/sewer (United Kingdom), or stormwater drain (Australia and New Zealand) is infrastructure designed to drain excess rain and ground water from impervious surfaces such as paved streets, car parks, parking lots, footpaths, sidewalks, and roofs.

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Subbase (pavement)

In highway engineering, subbase is the layer of aggregate material laid on the subgrade, on which the base course layer is located. Asphalt concrete and subbase (pavement) are pavements.

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Subsoil

Subsoil is the layer of soil under the topsoil on the surface of the ground.

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Tarmacadam

Tarmacadam is a concrete road surfacing material made by combining tar and macadam (crushed stone and sand), patented by Welsh inventor Edgar Purnell Hooley in 1902. Asphalt concrete and Tarmacadam are asphalt and pavements.

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Viscosity

The viscosity of a fluid is a measure of its resistance to deformation at a given rate.

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Volatile organic compound

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are organic compounds that have a high vapor pressure at room temperature.

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Wax

Waxes are a diverse class of organic compounds that are lipophilic, malleable solids near ambient temperatures.

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Zeolite

Zeolite is a family of several microporous, crystalline aluminosilicate materials commonly used as commercial adsorbents and catalysts.

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See also

Asphalt

Road construction

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asphalt_concrete

Also known as Asphalt mastic, Asphalt paving, Asphalt road, Asphaltic concrete, Asphaltic mastic, Bitumen macadam, Bituminous concrete, Bituminous mixture, Bituminous surfaced, Black top, Blacktop, Blacktopping, Cold mix asphalt technology, Mastic asphalt, Mastic roller hybrid, Oiled road, Porous European Mix, Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP), Recycled asphalt, Superpave, Warm-mix asphalt, Wet tar.

, Subsoil, Tarmacadam, Viscosity, Volatile organic compound, Wax, Zeolite.