Asphalt overlays are one of the most common tools for rehabilitating existing asphalt and concrete pavements. However, the performance of new overlays is often jeopardized by the cracking distress in the existing pavement. This existing cracking propagates, or reflects, through the new overlay to the surface of the new overlay. The rate at which this reflection cracking propagates to the surface is a function of overlay thickness crack severity, traffic...

Full depth reclamation of asphalt pavements using asphalt emulsions is a process that recycles and rejuvenates the existing asphalt pavement surface, base, and sometimes, the subgrade, providing an improved underlying structure for the new asphalt pavement. This report provides guidance, standardized plans and specifications, construction inspection best practices materials testing procedures and frequencies, a performance evaluation process, and...

The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of predicting quantities of rippable and non-rippable rock on proposed construction projects, using seismic soundings supplemented by test borings and electrical resistivity measurements. Six projects scheduled for construction in different geologic settings were selected for investigation and field work has been completed on all six. To date, only three of the projects have been constructed....

Crack sealants are often utilized as a preservation tool in asphalt pavements. When a hot mix asphalt overlay is placed on top a pavement containing crack sealants, a bump and additional transverse cracks sometimes occur in the new asphalt overlay. These bumps and sometimes, transverse cracks are initiated during breakdown rolling and become progressively more severe upon further compaction. This paper presents results of a five-year study designed...

This final report is intended to provide information regarding the performance of crack sealants supplied and installed by three manufacturers for experimental use in a three-year evaluation of in-service pavements on three Colorado highways.

The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) has been collecting data from the Hamburg Rutter and the French Rutter for over 20 years. No specifications have been written in that time for either the Hamburg Rutter or the French Rutter. This is largely due to the need for a companion test to be developed so dry asphalt mixes would not be designed specifically for passing the Hamburg Rutter test. This report looks at the state of practice within...

A report that evaluates the stability of re-vegetation of high elevation, decomposed, granite cut-slopes by using repeated applications of soil amendments.