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Title:

Assessment of Surface Treatment with Textiles for Pavement Rehabilitation and Maintenance

Accession Number:

01152413

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Pavement preservation toolboxes typically consist of several surface treatments that can be considered to preserve or extend the life of a pavement – possible surface treatments include chip sealing or thin lift overlays. Although paving fabrics are normally used with asphalt concrete overlays, paving fabrics are also found to be cost-effective when used in conjunction with a chip seal. Documented life cycle cost studies find that paving fabrics can extend the life of a chip seal by an additional 50 to 75 percent in the warm climate areas of California and Texas. The paving fabric industry has been challenged by the Federal Highway Administration and other pavement preservation practitioners to develop a reasonable approach for chip sealing over paving fabric in various climatic conditions throughout the United States, in addition to those successfully done in the warm areas of California and Texas. Respecting this challenge, 33 projects were installed in seven temperature zones throughout the United States including Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Washington DC, and other parts of California and Texas. Field experiments were placed in cooperation with cities, counties, state and federal highway transportation departments, with contributions from chip seal contractors, fabric installers and fabric manufacturers. The objective of this paper is to quantify the climatic areas where chip sealing over paving fabric can be done successfully and provide a cost-effective contribution to pavement maintenance and preservation. In addition, information will also be provided on its economic and environmental benefits, and construction materials application depending on climatic condition.

Monograph Accession #:

01147878

Report/Paper Numbers:

10-2739

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Davis, Lita
Miner, John

Pagination:

17p

Publication Date:

2010

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 89th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2010-1-10 to 2010-1-14
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Features:

Figures (1) ; Photos (4) ; References (21) ; Tables (3)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Paving fabrics

Subject Areas:

Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; I60: Maintenance

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2010 Paper #10-2739

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jan 25 2010 11:20AM