Full Details - Progress Towards the Spectrographic Analysis of Roads at Traffic Speed
Date Tuesday 16 February 2021
Title Progress Towards the Spectrographic Analysis of Roads at Traffic Speed
Speaker Donald Burton (Highways England)
Event Type Online - using Teams
Time 12:00-13:00
Contact IAT Head Office (info@instituteofasphalt.org or 0131 3333 953)
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More details This is a brand new method for determining the condition of the surface of asphalt roads. It is a Highways England project which was first considered in 2012. The project looks at the chemical changes of bitumen as it ages in a road surface. It loses its adhesion to the aggregate, which of course leads to surfaces breaking up. Particularly for thin surface materials, which rely on the binder to do a lot of the work to keep the material together. The aim is to offer a prediction as to when surfaces are going to fail.
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