HISTORICAL ASPHALT
This word comes from the Greek word asphaltos, meaning “secure.” The Romans used it to seal their baths, reservoirs and aqueducts.
What is Asphalt?
EDP
What is an Environmental Product Declaration?
I fell in my driveway and can't sue anyone.
What is It's my own asphalt?
This test is performed to gradation of Aggregates.
What is a Sieve Test?
Its the most recycled product in the USA.
What is Asphalt?
In the early 1800s, a Scottish man perfected the use of mixing sand and stone with tar to create a hard road surface. He’s also why asphalt is sometimes called “macadam."
Who is John McAdam
RAS
What is Recycled Asphalt Shingles?
Next to Hal, he's been here the longest.
Who is Monte?
Immersing a positive electrode and a negative electrode into an emulsion sample performs the test.
What is a Particle Charge Test?
Uses foamed asphalt or engineered emulsion that is run through a pug mill and placed in-situ.
What is Cold In-Place Recycling (CIR)?
They were the first to mix sand and stone with natural Tar (a Mesopotamian culture, located in present-day Iraq).
Who were the Babylonians ?
PPRA
What is the Pavement Preservation and Recycling Alliance?
This PADD in the Rocky Mountain Area includes Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado.
What is PADD 4?
Asphalt binder viscosity is typically measured at 60° C (140° F) because it approximates this...
What is the maximum HMA pavement surface temperature during summer in the U.S.
Applied with a scrub broom.
What is a Scrub Seal?
In 1956, This President signed legislation funding the construction of the U.S. Interstate Highway System (IHS)--something Americans had dreamed of since Detroit starting building cars.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
AASHTO
What is the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials?
The year was our company founded
What is 1976?
The two primary sources for finding specifications and test procedures for asphalt emulsions.
What is the The American Society For Testing and Materials (ASTM) and The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)?
Uses a modified emulsion applied with a paving machine that contains a spray bar.
What is Bonded Wearing Course?
According to the Asphalt Institute, the first record of an asphaltic road being constructed in the 1800s was in this country in 1852.
What is France (Paris to Perpignan)
PADD
What are the Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts?
It's the thing we all wake up every day and strive to be thought our internal and external interactions.
What is First Choice?
This equipment is used to measure binder properties at low temperatures.
What is the Bending Beam Rheometer (BBR)?
This process refers to an improved compaction process using rollers equipped with an integrated measurement system that consists of a highly accurate GPS, accelerometers, onboard computer reporting system, and infrared thermometers for HMA feedback control.
What is Intelligent compaction (IC)?