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The Idiots' Guide to Highways Maintenance
Copyright © 2000/09, C.J.Summers


PAGES THAT ARE MAINLY PHOTOGRAPHS OF HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE MATERIALS AND PROCESSES,
 ( I have created this group of pages using the ".jpg" image format and I have compressed them as much as possible without losing too much definition, this should mean these pages will download quite quickly. ) 
Asphalt / Bituminous Mixture Reinforcing Bituminous mixture analysis 
(14mm. Close Graded Macadam)  
Bituminous Mixture Surfaces, a close study Cold Applied, Coloured High Friction Surfacing
Core taking, 
and the information cores provide 		Core Pictures through Bituminous Road Pavements
Coloured (mostly red) types of road surfacings  Deflectograph Survey
Footway slurry seal surfacing Haunch widening of rural roads     
Ironwork raising for bituminous overlays Ironwork ( Inspection Covers & Gullys ) Installation
Imprinting of Hot Thermoplastic Materials Laying of Hot Rolled Asphalt (HRA) and Precoats
Laying HRA and Precoated Chippings (more info) Laying a Stone Mastic Asphalt Wearing Course
Laying a Thin Bituminous Wearing Course Laying a Thin Bituminous Wearing Course
( Four Years Later )
Resurfacing a Rubberised Generic Thinly Laid Bituminous Surface Course after nine years, with discussion
Rates of spread of 20mm, precoated chippings for
Hot Rolled Asphalt surface courses 		Red Coloured, Hot Rolled Asphalt & Chippings
Recycling in Highway Maintenance - Off Site Recycling in Highway Maintenance - In-Situ
Recycling on Site by Hot Patch Treatment Road Marking with White Thermoplastic
Road Surface Retexturing Processes Stone Mastic Asphalt (SMA), a study in pictures  
Site Investigation by Coring Site Investigation by Trial Holes
Surface Dressing Surface Dressing "Train"
Surface Dressing Failure - Chipping Loss Surface Dressing  Failure - "Fatting Up" of Dressed Areas
Surface Dressing, Depot Spray-Bar Test Slurry Macadam on Carriageways
Slurry Macadam / Micro Asphalt    Velocity ("Jetpatcher") Bituminous Material Patching
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