Chapter 3
Testing
An overview of concepts related to pavement testing. A number of different test procedures are used to evaluate construction materials, paving mixtures, and finished pavements.
Sampling
Aggregate Tests
Pavement Tests
Cement Tests
- Compressive Strength
- Early Age Behavior
- Portland Cement Compressive Strength
- Portland Cement Fineness
- Portland Cement Flexural Strength
- Portland Cement Loss on Ignition
- Portland Cement Setting Time
- Portland Cement Soundness
- Portland Cement Specific Gravity
- Portland Cement Tensile Strength
- Air Content of Fresh Concrete
- Concrete Batch Tickets and the Water–Cementitious Ratio
- Field Testing of Fresh Concrete
- Making and Curing Concrete Test Specimens
- Sampling Freshly Mixed Concrete
- Unit Weight and Yield of Fresh Concrete
Asphalt Mixture Tests
Binder Tests
- Asphalt Binder and Characterization
- Rotational Viscometer
- Rolling Thin-Film Oven
- Pressure Aging Vessel
- Dynamic Shear Rheometer
- Bending Beam Rheometer
- Direct Tension Tester
- Penetration Test
- Absolute Viscosity
- Kinematic Viscosity
- Ductility
- Softening Point
- Thin-Film Oven
- Flash Point
- Spot Test
- ΔTc and Continuous Grading
- Multiple Stress Creep Recovery Test
Soil Tests