Course Details
Course Outline
5 days course
An introduction to road construction materials
- The used materials for road embankment, road pavement (gravel roads, surface dressed roads, paved roads, etc)
- Material properties
- Soil and subbase: Standard tests to determine the engineering properties of road materials
- Standard tests to determine the engineering properties of road materials
Asphalt Mixtures
- Types of Asphalt Mixtures
- Hot mix asphalt concrete
- Worm mix asphalt concrete
- Cold mix asphalt concrete
Design of Asphalt Concrete Mixture
- Testing of materials used in the asphalt mix (course aggregate, fine aggregate, mineral filler, binder etc.)
- Specification requirements
- Blinding of aggregate
- Graduation of blinded aggregates
- Marshal method for design of asphalt mixtures; volumetric relationships, optimum bitumen content, tolerance, job mix formula
Quality Control and Quality Assurance in Road Construction
- The importance of quality control in road construction processes
- Selecting of materials sources
- Testing of materials
- Inspection of the executed work
- Testing the executed work
- Filling the test result for quality assurance process
- Quality assurance in road construction processes
Road Construction Technology
- Introduction to the new technologies in road construction
- New equipment’s, new techniques used in road construction
