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TRANSPORTAT ION RESEARCH BOARD WASHINGTON, D.C. 2008 www.TRB.org N A T I O N A L C O O P E R A T I V E H I G H W A Y R E S E A R C H P R O G R A M NCHRP REPORT 614 Subject Areas Maintenance Refining the Simple Performance Tester for Use in Routine Practice Ramon Bonaquist ADVANCED ASPHALT TECHNOLOGIES, LLC Sterling, VA Research sponsored by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration

NATIONAL COOPERATIVE HIGHWAY RESEARCH PROGRAM Systematic, well-designed research provides the most effective approach to the solution of many problems facing highway administrators and engineers. Often, highway problems are of local interest and can best be studied by highway departments individually or in cooperation with their state universities and others. However, the accelerating growth of highway transportation develops increasingly complex problems of wide interest to highway authorities. These problems are best studied through a coordinated program of cooperative research. In recognition of these needs, the highway administrators of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials initiated in 1962 an objective national highway research program employing modern scientific techniques. This program is supported on a continuing basis by funds from participating member states of the Association and it receives the full cooperation and support of the Federal Highway Administration, United States Department of Transportation. The Transportation Research Board of the National Academies was requested by the Association to administer the research program because of the Board’s recognized objectivity and understanding of modern research practices. The Board is uniquely suited for this purpose as it maintains an extensive committee structure from which authorities on any highway transportation subject may be drawn; it possesses avenues of communications and cooperation with federal, state and local governmental agencies, universities, and industry; its relationship to the National Research Council is an insurance of objectivity; it maintains a full-time research correlation staff of specialists in highway transportation matters to bring the findings of research directly to those who are in a position to use them. The program is developed on the basis of research needs identified by chief administrators of the highway and transportation departments and by committees of AASHTO. Each year, specific areas of research needs to be included in the program are proposed to the National Research Council and the Board by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. Research projects to fulfill these needs are defined by the Board, and qualified research agencies are selected from those that have submitted proposals. Administration and surveillance of research contracts are the responsibilities of the National Research Council and the Transportation Research Board. The needs for highway research are many, and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program can make significant contributions to the solution of highway transportation problems of mutual concern to many responsible groups. The program, however, is intended to complement rather than to substitute for or duplicate other highway research programs. Published reports of the NATIONAL COOPERATIVE HIGHWAY RESEARCH PROGRAM are available from: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 and can be ordered through the Internet at: http://www.national-academies.org/trb/bookstore Printed in the United States of America NCHRP REPORT 614 Project 9-29 ISSN 0077-5614 ISBN: 978-0-309-09938-7 Library of Congress Control Number 2008928656 © 2008 Transportation Research Board COPYRIGHT PERMISSION Authors herein are responsible for the authenticity of their materials and for obtaining written permissions from publishers or persons who own the copyright to any previously published or copyrighted material used herein. Cooperative Research Programs (CRP) grants permission to reproduce material in this publication for classroom and not-for-profit purposes. Permission is given with the understanding that none of the material will be used to imply TRB, AASHTO, FAA, FHWA, FMCSA, FTA, or Transit Development Corporation endorsement of a particular product, method, or practice. It is expected that those reproducing the material in this document for educational and not-for-profit uses will give appropriate acknowledgment of the source of any reprinted or reproduced material. For other uses of the material, request permission from CRP. NOTICE The project that is the subject of this report was a part of the National Cooperative Highway Research Program conducted by the Transportation Research Board with the approval of the Governing Board of the National Research Council. Such approval reflects the Governing Board’s judgment that the program concerned is of national importance and appropriate with respect to both the purposes and resources of the National Research Council. The members of the technical committee selected to monitor this project and to review this report were chosen for recognized scholarly competence and with due consideration for the balance of disciplines appropriate to the project. The opinions and conclusions expressed or implied are those of the research agency that performed the research, and, while they have been accepted as appropriate by the technical committee, they are not necessarily those of the Transportation Research Board, the National Research Council, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, or the Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation. Each report is reviewed and accepted for publication by the technical committee according to procedures established and monitored by the Transportation Research Board Executive Committee and the Governing Board of the National Research Council. The Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, the National Research Council, the Federal Highway Administration, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, and the individual states participating in the National Cooperative Highway Research Program do not endorse products or manufacturers. Trade or manufacturers’ names appear herein solely because they are considered essential to the object of this report.

CRP STAFF FOR NCHRP REPORT 614 Christopher W. Jenks, Director, Cooperative Research Programs Crawford F. Jencks, Deputy Director, Cooperative Research Programs Edward T. Harrigan, Senior Program Officer Eileen P. Delaney, Director of Publications Margaret B. Hagood, Editor NCHRP PROJECT 09-29 PANEL Field of Materials and Construction—Area of Bituminous Materials Larry L. Michael, Hagerstown, MD (Chair) Ronald Cominsky, Pennsylvania Asphalt Pavement Association, Harrisburg, PA Gary A. Frederick, New York State DOT, Albany, NY Cindy LaFleur, Callanan Industries, Inc., Albany, NY Dean A. Maurer, Pennsylvania DOT, Harrisburg, PA Murari M. Pradhan, Arizona DOT, Phoenix, AZ John “Jack” Weigel, Jr., Payne & Dolan, Inc., Waukesha, WI Thomas Harman, FHWA Liaison Leslie Ann McCarthy, FHWA Liaison Audrey Copeland, Other Liaison John D’Angelo, Other Liaison Frederick Hejl, TRB Liaison AUTHOR ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The research reported here was performed under NCHRP Project 9-29 by Advanced Asphalt Tech- nologies, LLC. The Simple Performance Test Systems evaluated in this report were developed by Indus- trial Process Controls, Ltd, Interlaken Technology Corporation and Medical Device Testing Systems. The Simple Performance Test Specimen Fabrication System evaluated in this report was developed by Shedworks, Inc. Ramon Bonaquist, Chief Operating Officer for Advanced Asphalt Technologies, LLC, served as Principal Investigator for the project and authored this report. Donald W. Christensen, Senior Engineer for Advanced Asphalt Technologies, LLC and Donald Jack, Laboratory Manager for Advanced Asphalt Technologies, LLC assisted with the equipment refinements and equipment evaluation reported in this document. C O O P E R A T I V E R E S E A R C H P R O G R A M S

This report presents the findings of a research project to develop a practical, economical simple performance tester (SPT) for use in routine hot-mix asphalt (HMA) mix design and in the characterization of HMA materials for pavement structural design with the Mechanistic- Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG, version 1.0 available for evaluation at www. trb.org/mepdg). In the work reported here, the effectiveness and efficiency of the SPT were sub- stantially improved for its use in routine, day-to-day pavement structural design with the MEPDG. Thus, the report will be of particular interest to materials and pavement structural design engineers in state highway agencies, as well as to materials suppliers. The present HMA volumetric mix design method used by the majority of state highway agencies was developed in the asphalt component of the Strategic Highway Research Pro- gram (1987–1993). This method—standardized as AASHTO M 323 and R 35—does not include a simple, mechanical “proof” test analogous to the Marshall stability and flow tests or the Hveem stabilometer method. Though the utility and soundness of the HMA mix design method are evident by its almost ubiquitous, present-day use, mix designers from the beginning have asked for com- plementary simple performance tests to quickly and easily proof-test candidate mix designs. In 1996, work sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration began at the University of Maryland—College Park to identify and validate simple performance tests for permanent deformation and fatigue cracking. In 1999, this effort was transferred to Task C of NCHRP Project 9-19, “Superpave Support and Performance Models Management,” with major activity conducted at Arizona State University as well as the University of Maryland. NCHRP Project 9-19 recommended three test and parameter combinations as simple performance tests for permanent deformation: (1) the dynamic modulus, E*, determined with the triaxial dynamic modulus test; (2) the flow time, FT, determined with the triaxial static creep test; and (3) the flow number, Fn, determined with the triaxial repeated load test. The dynamic modulus, E*, also was chosen as the simple performance test for fatigue cracking. Under NCHRP Project 9-29, “Simple Performance Tester for Superpave Mix Design,” Advanced Asphalt Technologies, LLC was assigned the task of designing, procuring, and evaluating an SPT for (1) proof-testing for permanent deformation and fatigue cracking in HMA mix design and (2) materials characterization for pavement structural design with the MEPDG. In the portion of NCHRP Project 9-29 reported here, the research team conducted two major tasks aimed at continued development of the SPT. In the first task, an abbreviated testing protocol for developing dynamic modulus master curves for use in routine mixture evaluation and flexible pavement design was developed and validated. The abbreviated test- F O R E W O R D By Edward T. Harrigan Staff Officer Transportation Research Board

ing protocol is based on analysis of numerous dynamic modulus master curves produced using AASHTO TP62. Details of the analysis are presented in Chapter 2 and a recommended Standard Practice for developing dynamic modulus master curves for routine mixture eval- uation and flexible pavement design is presented in Appendix A. The abbreviated testing protocol includes testing at three temperatures between 39.2 and 115°F using four frequencies of loading between 0.01 and 10 Hz. The low temperature required some modification of the SPT developed earlier in NCHRP Project 9-29 to permit master curve testing, viz., (1) improved cooling capacity, (2) additional load capacity, and (3) software modification to include 0.01 Hz load control. Cost estimates from potential vendors indicated that the additional cooling and loading capacity would only add approx- imately 5 percent to the cost of the SPT. In the second task, the SPT equipment specification was revised to produce a device capable of performing dynamic modulus master curves using the abbreviated protocol described above. This version of the SPT maintains the capability to perform the flow num- ber and flow time testing. The revised equipment specification is presented in Appendix B and was used to (1) upgrade the first-article devices that were purchased and evaluated ear- lier in the project and (2) procure and evaluate additional production units from several vendors. This report presents the full text of the contractor’s final report and three appendices, which present (1) proposed standard practices for (a) developing dynamic modulus mas- ter curves and (b) preparing cylindrical test specimens for use with the SPT (Appendix A); (2) a revised SPT purchase specification (Appendix B); and (3) a specification for an SPT test specimen fabrication system (Appendix C).

C O N T E N T S 1 Summary 3 Chapter 1 Introduction and Research Approach 3 1.1 Problem and Purpose 3 1.2 Scope and Research Approach 3 1.2.1 Simple Performance Test System 4 1.2.2 Simple Performance Test Specimen Fabrication System 5 Chapter 2 Abbreviated Dynamic Modulus Master Curve Testing 5 2.1 Introduction 5 2.2 MEPDG Dynamic Modulus Master Curve 7 2.3 Proposed Dynamic Modulus Master Curve Modification 8 2.4 Comparison of Master Curves Using Complete and Reduced Data Sets 11 2.5 Abbreviated Dynamic Modulus Master Curve Testing Conditions 14 2.6 Arrhenius Shift Factor Relationship 14 2.7 Example Using the Abbreviated Dynamic Modulus Master Curve Testing 14 2.8 Summary and Draft Standard Practice 16 Chapter 3 Revised Simple Performance Test System 16 3.1 Revised Simple Performance Test System Equipment Specification 16 3.2 Simple Performance Test System Procurement and Evaluation 16 3.2.1 Procurement 18 3.2.2 Upgraded First Article Devices 20 3.2.3 Medical Device Testing Services First Article 23 3.2.4 IPC Global Production Unit 27 Chapter 4 Simple Performance Test Specimen Fabrication System 27 4.1 Recommended Standard Practice for Performance Test Specimen Fabrication 27 4.2 Automated Specimen Fabrication Equipment 28 4.2.1 Equipment Selection Process 28 4.2.2 Equipment Development 30 4.2.3 Specification Compliance Testing 33 4.2.4 Needed Improvements 35 Chapter 5 Conclusions and Recommendations 35 5.1. Dynamic Modulus Master Curves 35 5.2. Simple Performance Test Systems 35 5.3. Simple Performance Test Specimen Fabrication 37 References 38 Glossary

39 Appendix A Proposed Standard Practices 40 Proposed Standard Practice for Developing Dynamic Modulus Master Curves for Hot-Mix Asphalt Concrete Using the Simple Performance Test System 49 Proposed Standard Practice for Preparation of Cylindrical Performance Test Specimens Using the Superpave Gyratory Compactor 65 Appendix B Revised Simple Performance Test System Specification 138 Appendix C Simple Performance Test Specimen Fabrication System Specification

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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 614: Refining the Simple Performance Tester for Use in Routine Practice explores the develop of a practical, economical simple performance tester (SPT) for use in routine hot-mix asphalt (HMA) mix design and in the characterization of HMA materials for pavement structural design with the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide.

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