Asphalt | Innovate | Enlighten | Implement (AIEI) publications

Information on AIDAPT cooperative agreement materials, the webinar series and AIDAPT featured products

• Accelerated Implementation and Deployment of Asphalt Pavement Technologies (AIDAPT) Cooperative Agreement Materials: one-page summary
• Deployment of Asphalt Pavement Technologies (DAPT) webinar series: one-page description and access
• AIDAPT featured products

Asphalt binder

• Steps to reduce use of cutback asphalt in pavement maintenance and preservation
• Responsible use of re-refined engine oil bottoms (REOB)
• Responsible use of polyphosphoric acid (PPA) modification of asphalt binders
• Tech brief: delta Tc binder specification parameter
• Multiple stress creep and recovery (MSCR) implementation and transition

Links to four AMPT videos

• AMPT video 1: Fabrication of small and large specimens
• AMPT video 2: Dynamic modulus small specimen test
• AMPT video 3: Cyclic fatigue small scale specimen test
• AMPT video 4: Stress sweep rutting test

Links to four BMD asphalt videos.

• BMD video 5: Semi-circular bend test
• BMD video 6: Indirect tensile cracking test
• BMD video 7: Illinois flexibility index test
• BMD video 8: Hamburg wheel-track test

Balanced mix design

• 2024 Accelerated Implementation and Deployment of Pavement Technologies (AIDPT) pooled fund peer exchange on balanced mix design (BMD): outcomes summary
• 2023 Midwest peer exchange on balanced mix design (BMD): outcomes summary
• 2023 Rocky Mountain West peer exchange on balanced mix design (BMD): outcomes summary
• 2023 Northeast peer exchange on balanced mix design (BMD): outcomes summary
• 2023 North Central peer exchange on balanced mix design (BMD): outcomes summary
• 2023 Southeast peer exchange on balanced mix design (BMD): outcomes summary
• 1-pager: adjustment of asphalt mix design / job mix formula to satisfy mechanical test properties
• Tech brief: adjustment of asphalt mix design / job mix formula to satisfy mechanical test properties
• Tech brief: balanced asphalt mix design: eight tasks for implementation
• Positive practices, lessons learned and challenges when implementing balanced design of asphalt mixtures: site visits
• Index-based tests for performance engineered mixture designs for asphalt pavements
• Case studies on the implementation of balanced mix design and performance tests for asphalt mixtures: California Department of Transportation (Caltrans)
• Case studies on the implementation of balanced mix design and performance tests for asphalt mixtures: Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT)
• Case studies on the implementation of balanced mix design and performance tests for asphalt mixtures: Louisiana Department of Transportation & Development (LaDOTD)
• Case studies on the implementation of balanced mix design and performance tests for asphalt mixtures: Maine Department of Transportation (MaineDOT)
• Case studies on the implementation of balanced mix design and performance tests for asphalt mixtures: New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT)
• Case studies on the implementation of balanced mix design and performance tests for asphalt mixtures: Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT)
• Case studies on the implementation of balanced mix design and performance tests for asphalt mixtures: Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT)

Density of asphalt pavements

• Summary of strategies for improving asphalt pavement density: one-pager
• Enhanced in-place density: demonstration project: one-pager
• Tech brief 1: density demonstration projects and related specifications
• Tech brief 2: techniques and tools for improving density
• Tech brief 3: overcoming obstacles to achieving density
• Tech brief 4: Improving longitudinal joint performance
• FHWA demonstration project for enhanced durability of asphalt pavements through increased in-place pavement density, phase 3
• Increased density to improve pavement durability demonstration project - NDOT 3716

Quality assurance of asphalt

• A practice for including intelligent construction equipment in quality assurance programs
• Asphalt materials quality assurance practices
• Alternative contracting methods for pavement preservation projects

Resource responsible use of materials

• Summary of the tech brief: asphalt pavement recycling technologies
• Tech brief: asphalt pavement recycling technologies
• Cold asphalt and hot in-place asphalt recycling technologies
• Tech brief: Resource responsible use of reclaimed asphalt pavement in asphalt mixtures
• Successful use of reclaimed asphalt pavement in asphalt mixtures
• Tech brief: Practices and lessons learned when using reclaimed asphalt shingles in asphalt mixtures
• A field review: Successful practices and lessons learned when using reclaimed asphalt shingles in asphalt mixtures
• Resource responsible use of recycled tire rubber in asphalt pavements
• Recycled tire rubber - Hybrid GTR binders and dry added GTR - How to use them in asphalt pavement mixtures
• Asphalt pavement industry survey on recycled materials and warm-mix asphalt usage 2021
• Asphalt pavement industry survey on recycled materials and warm-mix asphalt usage 2020
• Asphalt pavement industry survey on recycled materials and warm-mix asphalt usage 2019

Other

• Tech brief: asphalt pavement carbon footprint reduction workshop
• Tech brief: advances in the design, production and construction of stone matrix asphalt (SMA)