2013 Asphalt Today

Towanda, Kan.-based Dustrol Inc. continually strives to refine its hot in-place recycling (HIR) process to deliver the best possible product for the customer.

All roads lead to somewhere—even if they appear to be in the middle of nowhere.Such is the case with the Angeles Forest Highway, which winds 25 miles through the Angeles National...

I-69 in Indiana owes a big debt to the Indiana Toll Road. Not literally but metaphorically.Leasing the Indiana Toll Road in 2006 to a private concessionaire for a lump-sum payment...

Crushing on trackThe portable CST Cone Crusher plant from Screen Machine Industries sports one of the largest crushers in the industry at 51 in. A 5-ft-x-7-ft vibratory shaker...

Moisture is a constant companion, and threat, to the Hamilton Fish Newburgh-Beacon Bridge.Moisture penetration and its freeze-thaw cycle had begun to damage the concrete surface...

In 2011, after enduring more than 44 years of surface erosion and extreme swings in temperature and precipitation, the 231-ft-high Homestake Dam in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain region...

Recent research by the National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT) indicates the use of highly polymer-modified asphalt binder (HiMA) in mix design can reduce pavement thickness...

As maintenance budgets are stretched to their limits, perhaps thin-asphalt overlays can fatten those thin budgets a bit.Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) researchers...

Durable, tough microsurfacing treatments are back, preserving Iowa interstates, but now containing a high-performance latex polymer modifier.

In the terminology of environmental experts, recycling is good but reusing is better. “Recycling” means incorporating a reclaimed material into another form. That’s how soda...

In late August 2012, the crews working SH 130 were attaining astonishingly smooth placements of hot-mix asphalt (HMA) on segments 5 and 6 of the new central Texas toll route south...