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NCHRP Report 673: A Manual for Design of Hot-Mix Asphalt with Commentary (2011)
National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)

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Transportation Research Board. "Adjusting Laboratory HMA Mix Designs for Plant Production." NCHRP Report 673: A Manual for Design of Hot-Mix Asphalt with Commentary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2011.

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Front Matter (R1-R11)
Chapter 1 - Introduction (1-3)
Materials Used in Making Asphalt Concrete (4-4)
Asphalt Concrete Pavements (5-6)
How Asphalt Concrete Pavements Fail (7-9)
Asphalt Concrete Mixtures (10-11)
HMA Mix Design Methods (12-14)
Chapter 3 - Asphalt Binders (15-16)
Performance Grading - Test Methods (17-21)
Performance Grading - Specification (22-23)
Critical Temperatures, Specification Values, and Reliability (24-25)
Practical Selection of PG Binder Grades for HMA Mix Design (26-27)
Aggregate Particle Size Distribution (28-32)
Aggregate Specific Gravity and Absorption (33-37)
Aggregate Specification Properties (38-42)
Source Aggregate Properties (43-45)
Composition Factors (46-52)
Mixture-Specific Gravity (53-55)
Volumetric Analysis (56-64)
Chapter 6 - Evaluating the Performance of Asphalt Concrete Mixtures (65-65)
Mixture Composition and Performance (66-70)
Laboratory Testing (71-81)
Performance Predictions Using the AASHTO Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) (82-90)
Pavement Structure and Construction (91-94)
Important Factors in Mix Selection (95-97)
Recommended Mix Types (98-100)
Other Mix Design Methods (101-105)
Overview of Design Method (106-106)
Step 1. Gather Information (107-107)
Step 2. Select Asphalt Binder (108-110)
Step 4. Select Nominal Maximum Aggregate Size (111-111)
Step 5. Determine Target VMA and Design Air Void Content (112-113)
Step 8. Proportion Aggregates for Trial Mixtures (114-123)
Step 9. Calculate Trial Mix Proportions by Weight and Check Dust/Binder Ratio (124-127)
Step 10. Evaluate and Refine Trial Mixtures (128-144)
Step 11. Compile Mix Design Report (145-147)
General Mixture Design Considerations for RAP (148-149)
Overview of the Mixture Design Process with RAP (150-150)
Using HMA Tools to Design HMA Mixes with RAP (151-151)
RAP Sampling (152-152)
Blending and Variability (153-160)
RAP Aggregate Properties (161-163)
RAP Binder Properties (164-169)
Handling RAP Materials in the Laboratory (170-173)
Overview of GGHMA Mix Design Procedure (174-175)
Step 1 - Materials Selection (176-178)
Step 2 - Trial Gradations (179-187)
Step 3 - Selection of Optimum Gradation (188-188)
Step 5 - Conduct Performance Testing (189-190)
Trouble Shooting GGHMA Mix Designs (191-193)
Chapter 11 - Design of Open-Graded Mixtures (194-194)
Step 1 - OGFC Materials Selection (195-197)
Step 2 - Trial Gradations (198-202)
Step 4 - Selection of Optimum Asphalt Binder Content (203-204)
Trouble Shooting PFC Mix Designs (205-206)
Adjusting Laboratory HMA Mix Designs for Plant Production (207-210)
Quality Control of HMA (211-224)
Commentary to the Mix Design Manual for Hot Mix Asphalt (225-225)
Chapter 1 - Introduction (226-226)
Chapter 2 - Background (227-227)
Chapter 3 - Asphalt Binders (228-228)
Chapter 4 - Aggregates (229-230)
Chapter 5 - Mixture Volumetric Composition (231-231)
Chapter 6 - Evaluating the Performance of Asphalt Concrete Mixtures (232-239)
Chapter 7 - Selection of Asphalt Concrete Mix Type (240-240)
Chapter 8 - Design of Dense-Graded HMA Mixtures (241-252)
Chapter 9 - Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (253-264)
Chapter 10 - Design of Gap-Graded HMA Mixtures (265-265)
Chapter 11 - Design of Open-Graded Mixtures (266-266)
Chapter 12 - Field Adjustments and Quality Assurance of HMA Mixtures (267-270)
References (271-273)
Abbreviations used without definitions in TRB publications (274-274)