Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Chip seals are used extensively by CDOT for extending pavement life. Chip seals utilizing locally available and minimally processed aggregates should be a more economical pavement preservation treatment than chip seals constructed with higher quality, more expensive aggregates. Low traffic roadways may not demand such materials to perform acceptably. After four winters and three summers service both experimental chip seals are performing well. It...

The use of vibratory steel rollers during breakdown compaction of hot mix asphalt overlays on asphalt pavements containing crack sealants appears to exacerbate the presence of bumps and transverse cracks in the new asphalt directly over and in front of the cracks.

This study of the performance of the concrete pavement on Interstate Route 70 approximately 5 miles east and west of Strasburg, Colorado, was initiated to determine the cause of cracking which appeared shortly after the pavement was laid.

Asphalt overlays are one of the most common tools for rehabilitating existing asphalt and concrete pavements. However, the performance of new overlays is often jeopardized by the cracking distress in the existing pavement. This existing cracking propagates, or reflects, through the new overlay to the surface of the new overlay. The rate at which this reflection cracking propagates to the surface is a function of overlay thickness crack severity, traffic...