TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 712: Optimization of Tack Coat for HMA Placement presents proposed test methods for measuring the quality and performance characteristics of tack coat in the laboratory and the field, and includes a training manual presenting proposed construction and testing procedures for tack coat materials.
Links to appendixes B and D to NCHRP Report 712, which are available only in electronic format, are below:
• Appendix B: ATacker™ Displacement Rate Verification Experiment
• Appendix D: Comparison of the LISST Device and the Simple Shear Tester (SST)
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2012. Optimization of Tack Coat for HMA Placement. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/13652.
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