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ROLE OF PERFORMANCE SPECIFICATIONS IN DEVELOPING A QUALITY CONTROL SYSTEM FOR WINTER MAINTENANCE
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Accession Number:

00974873

Record Type:

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/00978515

Abstract:

Effective winter maintenance makes use of freezing point depressant chemicals to prevent the formation of the bond between snow and ice and the highway pavement. In performing such winter maintenance, the selection of appropriate chemicals for the bond prevention task involves consideration of a number of factors, as indicated by Nixon and Williams. The factors are, in essence, performance measurements of the chemical, and as such can be incorporated easily into a specification document to allow for selection of the best chemicals for a given agency to use in its winter maintenance activities. Once performance measures for deicing or anti-icing chemicals have been specified, this allows the creation of a quality control program for the acceptance of those chemicals. This paper presents a series of performance measurement tests for chemicals and discusses the role that they can play in such a quality control program. Some tests are simple and rapid enough that they can be performed on every load of chemicals received, while for others a sampling technique must be used. An appropriate sampling technique is presented in this paper. Further, each test is categorized as to whether it should be applied to every load of chemicals or on a sampling basis. However, applying quality control to the chemicals as received is only part of a much broader quality program. This paper explores how the quality control of chemicals can be extended into a program that applies quality measures throughout winter maintenance activities. Obviously, such an extension involves performance measures, and these issues also are considered.

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Report/Paper Numbers:

E-C063,
SNOW04-005
SNOW04-039

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Nixon, W A
Kochumman, G
Qiu, J
Qiu, L
Xiong, J

Pagination:

p. 555-563

Publication Date:

2004-6

Serial:

Transportation Research Circular

Issue Number: E-C063
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0097-8515

Conference:

Sixth International Symposium on Snow Removal and Ice Control Technology

Location: Spokane, Washington
Date: 2004-6-7 to 2004-6-9
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board; Washington State Department of Transportation; American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials; and Federal Highway Administration.

Features:

Figures (4) ; Photos (2) ; References (7) ; Tables (2)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; I62: Winter Maintenance

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jun 16 2004 12:00AM