Pavements
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Through the Austroads' Pavement Technology Task Force, Austroads provides the lead forum in Australia and New Zealand on road pavement technology. Austroads manages pavement technology development and education, monitors international innovations, harmonises standards and codes of practice, and facilitates information exchange and technology transfer among road organisations in the public and private sectors.
Austroads has developed a number of distinctive guides, one of which deals with Pavement Technology in detail. Each Austroads guide has an associated task force comprised of senior representatives from Austroads jurisdictions and key stakeholders. Industry groups such as AAPA, AustStab, CCAA and Roading NZ are represented on the Pavement Technology Task Force. The purpose of the Task Force is to oversee the development and review of the guides. Task Force members advise on the scope, structure and broad content of the guides and facilitate development and ongoing maintenance of the guides.
The Guide to Pavement Technology covers the following areas:
Part 1: Introduction to Pavement Technology
Part 2: Pavement Structural Design
Part 3: Pavement Surfacings
Part 4: Pavement Materials
Part 4A: Granular Base and Sub Base Materials
Part 4B: Asphalt
Part 4C: Materials for Concrete Road Pavements
Part 4D: Stabilised Materials
Part 4E: Recycled Materials
Part 4F: Bituminous Binders
Part 4G: Geotextiles and Geogrids
Part 4H: Test Methods 
Part 4I: Earthworks Materials
Part 4J: Aggregate and Source Rock
Part 4K: Seals
Part 4L: Stabilising Binders
Part 5: Pavement Evaluation and Treatment Design
Part 6: Unsealed Pavements
Part 7: Pavement Maintenance
Part 8: Pavement Construction
Part 9: Pavement Work Practices
Part 10: Subsurface Drainage
To view all Austroads publications, please visit the publications page here.
To view all Austroads projects please click here.
Pavement projects 2012-2013
| TT1352 | Management of scarce and quality resources |
| TT1353 | Asphalt properties and mix design procedures |
| TT1354 | Optimising binder performance |
| TT1357 | Maintaining the rural road network |
| TT1358 | Strategic review of pavement design practice |
| TT1454 | Performance of warm mix asphalt |
| TT1608 | Aggregate polishing test - replacing reference aggregate |
| TT1611 | Improved rut resistance characterisation of granular bases |
| TT1614 | Pavement wear effects of heavy vehicle axle groups |
| TT1663 | Improved design of bituminous stabilised pavements |
| TT1664 | Cemented materials charecterisation |
| TT1665 | Polymer modified binder sprayed seal trials |
| TT1715 | Validation of enhanced pavement design model |
| TT1817 | Maximising the use of reclaimed asphalt pavement in asphalt design mix |
| TT1818 | Development and validation of a new long-term aging test for bitumens and PMBs |
| TT1819 | Charecterisation and performance evaluation of granular bases |
| TT1820 | Maximising the performance of sprayed seals |
| TT1823 | Binder charecterisation properties for enhanced performance |
| TT1824 | Strategic Review of Pavement Design Practice |
| TT1825 | Mix design and field evaluation of foamed bitumen stabi;ised pavements |
| TT1826 | Improved design procedures for asphalt pavements |
| TT1849 | Review of Guide to Pavement Technology Part 4B: Asphalt |
| TT1850 | Review of Guide to Pavement Technology Part 4F: Bituminous binders |
| TT1881 | Investigating key performance measures and predictions on unsealed roads |
Program Manager:
Chris Harrison
General Manager Engineering Technology
Roads and Maritime Services New South Wales
Program Support:
Tye Anthonisz
Technology Program Assistant
Roads and Maritime Services New South Wales
PO Box 3035
Parramatta NSW 2124
Phone: +61 2 8837 0413
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Technical Notes:
| Technical Note Number | Description | Issue Date | |
| Technical Note 1 | Foamed Bitumen Sealing (Superseded by TN 15) | 01/03/1993 | |
| Technical Note 2 | Stone Mastic Asphalt (SMA) (Superseded by TN 16) | 01/08/1993 | |
| Technical Note 3 | Ultra Thin Asphalt Surfacings - NOVACHIP (Superseded by TN 8) | 01/05/1994 | |
| Technical Note 4 | Light Duty Non-Structural Asphalt Surfacing and Overlay | 01/07/1997 |  |
| Technical Note 5 | Insitu Deep Lift Recycling of Pavements using Cementitious Binders | 01/11/1996 | |
| Technical Note 6 | Sprayed Sealing - Aggregate Pre-Coating | 01/11/1996 | |
| Technical Note 7 | TDR Gauges | 01/07/1997 | |
| Technical Note 8 | Ultra Thin Asphalt Surfacing | 01/09/1999 | |
| Technical Note 9 | Insitu Stabilisation of Marginal Materials | 01/06/1999 | |
| Technical Note 10 | The Use of Recycled Crumb Rubber in Asphalt | 01/07/1999 | |
| Technical Note 11 | Performance Criteria for Insitu Stabilised Pavements | 01/05/2002 | |
| Technical Note 12 | Effect of Design, Construction and Environmental Factors for Long-Term Performance of Stabilised Materials | 01/05/2002 | |
| Technical Note 13 | Controlling Moisture in Pavements | 01/10/2003 | |
| Technical Note 14 | Dry powdered polymer stabilising binder | 01/10/2003 | |
| Technical Note 15 | Foamed bitumen sprayed sealing | 20/04/2004 | |
| Technical Note 16 | Stone mastic asphalt | 20/04/2004 | |
Work Tips:
Aggregates, stabilised (000-099)
| Method No | Title | Issue Date | Version | |
| AGPT/T051 | Average Least Dimension of Aggregate by Direct Measurement (nominal Size 10mm and greater) | 01/06/2005 | 1 | |
| AGPT/T052 | Absorption of Bituminous Binder into Aggregate | 01/06/2005 | 1 | |
| AGPT/T053 | Determination of permanent deformation & resilient modulus characteristics of unbound granular materials under drained conditions | 01/09/2007 | 1 | |
Binders (100-199)
| Method No | Title | Issue Date | Version | |
| AGPT/T101 | Method of Sampling Polymer Modified Binders, Polymers and Crumb Rubber | 01/03/2006 | 2 | |
| AGPT/T102 | Protocol for Handling Polymer Modified Binders in the Laboratory | 01/07/2008 | 3 | |
| AGPT/T103 | Pre-treatment and Loss on Heating of Bitumen Multigrade and polymer Binders (rolling thin film oven [RTFO] test) | 01/06/2006 | 1 | |
| AGPT/T104 | Pre-Treatment and loss on heating, multigrade binders and polymer modifed binders by roller modified rolling thin film oven (MRTFO) test | 01/03/2006 | 2 | |
| AGPT/T105 | Pre-treatment of Polymer Modified Binders (Thermal Stability Test) | 01/03/2006 | 1 | |
| AGPT/T108 | Segregation of Polymer Modified Binders | 01/03/2006 | 1 | |
| AGPT/T109 | Ease of Remixing of Polymer Modified Binders | 01/03/2006 | 1 | |
| AGPT/T111 | Handling Viscosity of Polymer Modified Binders (Brookfield Thermosel) | 01/03/2006 | 2 | |
| AGPT/T112 | Flash Point of Polymer Modified Binders | 01/03/2006 | 2 | |
| AGPT/T121 | Shear Properties of Polymer Modified Binders (ARRB ELASTOMETER) | 01/08/2010 | 3 | |
| AGPT/T122 | Torsional Recovery of Polymer Modified Binders | 01/03/2006 | 2 | |
| AGPT/T123 | Toughness of Polymer Modified Binders (Force Ductilometer) | 01/03/2006 | 2 | |
| AGPT/T124 | Toughness of Polymer Modified Binders (ARRB Extensiometer) | 01/03/2006 | 2 | |
| AGPT/T131 | Softening Point of Polymer Modified Binders | 01/03/2006 | 2 | |
| AGPT/T132 | Compressive Limit of Polymer Modified Binders | 01/03/2006 | 2 | |
| AGPT/T141 | Laboratory protocol for the preparation of crumb rubber modified binders | 01/03/2006 | 1 | |
| AGPT/T142 | Rubber content of digested crumb rubber binders - Trichlor bath method | 01/03/2006 | 1 | |
| AG:PT/T143 | Particle Size and Properties of Crumb Rubber | 17/12/2010 | 1 | |
| AGPT/T144 | Morophology of crumb rubber - Bulk Density Test | 01/03/2006 | 1 | |
| AGPT/T151 | Fume assesssment of Modified binders | 01/06/2006 | 1 | |
| AGPT/T160 | Protocol for handling bitumens, bituminous emulsions and cutback bitumens in preparation for laboratory testing | 20/02/2013 | 1 | |
| AGPT/T161 | Determination of dynamic viscosity by flow through a capillary tube - test tube schedule | 26/03/2009 | 2 | |
| AGPT/T190 | Specification framework for polymer modified binders and multigrade bitumens | 10/12/2010 | 2 | |
Bituminous Mixes (200-299)
| Method No | Title | Issue Date | Version | |
| AGPT/T210 | Verification procedure for a wheel tracking test device | 01/01/2006 | 2 | |
| AGPT/T211 | Verification procdure for a gyratory compactor Part 1: | 01/05/2005 | 1 | |
| AGPT/T220 | Sample Preparation - Compaction of Asphalt Slabs | 01/09/2005 | 2 | |
| AGPT/T221 | Sampling of Bituminous Slurry | 01/05/2007 | 2 | |
| AGPT/T231 | Deformation Resistance of Asphalt Mixtures by the wheel tracking test | 01/01/2006 | 2 | |
| AGPT/T232 | Stripping Potential of Asphalt - Tensile Strength Ratio | 01/01/2007 | 3 | |
| AGPT/T233 | Fatigue life of compacted bituminous mixes subject to repeated flexural bending | 01/01/2006 | 3 | |
| AGPT/T234 | Asphalt Binder Content (Ignition Oven Method) | 01/06/2005 | 2 | |
| AGPT/T235 | Asphalt Binder Drain-off | 01/06/2006 | 2 | |
| AGPT/T236 | Asphalt Particle Loss | 01/06/2005 | 2 | |
| AGPT/T237 | Binder Film Index | 01/06/2005 | 1 | |
| AGPT/T250 | Modified Surface Texture Depth (Pestle method) | 01/06/2008 | 3 | |
| AGPT/T251 | Ball Penetration Test | 20/01/2010 | 2 | |
| AGPT/T252 | Penetration of Road Based by Bituminous Primers or Primer binders | 01/06/2006 | 3 | |
| AGPT/T253 | Seal Behaviour | 01/06/2006 | 1 | |
| AGPT/T270 | Consistency of Bituminous Slurry | 01/06/2005 | 1 | |
| AGPT/T271 | Determination of set and cure for bituminous slurry (cohesion test) | 01/05/2007 | 2 | |
| AGPT/T272 | Determination of Abrasion Loss of Bituminous Slurry (Wet Track Abrasion Test) | 01/06/2005 | 1 | |
| AGPT/T273 | Determination of Excess Binder in Bituminous Slurry (Loaded Wheel Test) | 01/06/2005 | 1 | |
Pavement Investigation (400-499)
| Method No | Title | Issue Date | Version | |
| AGPT/PT450 | Determination of the International Roughness Index (IRI) using ARRB Walking Profiler | 01/05/2007 | 2 | |
| AGPT/T452 | Measurement of Loose Aggregate on Sprayed Seals | 01/06/2006 | 1 | |
Equipment (500-599)
| Method No | Title | Issue Date | Version | |
| AGPT/T530 | Calibration of Bitumen Sprayers, Part 0 | November 2012 | 4 | |
| AGPT/T531 | Calibration of Bitumen Sprayers, Part 1 | November 2012 | 4 | |
| AGPT/T532 | Calibration of Bitumen Sprayers, Part 2 | November 2012 | 3 | |
| AGPT/T533 | Calibration of Bitumen Sprayers, Part 3 | November 2012 | 4 | |
| AGPT/T534 | Calibration of Bitumen Sprayers, Part 4 | November 2012 | 4 | |
| AGPT/T535 | Calibration of Bitumen Sprayers, Part 5 | November 2012 | 4 | |
| AGPT/T536 | Calibration of Bitumen Sprayers, Part 6 | November 2012 | 4 | |
| AGPT/T537 | Filed Calibration of Aggregate Spreaders | June 2005 | 1 | |