The top layer of pavement, called bitumen coarse, provides structural support and transmits loads to lower layers. It is composed of bitumen, coarse and fine aggregates, and filler. The layer thickness is typically 50mm for the 19mm nominal size aggregate and 30-40mm for the 13.2mm size. Quality control tests are conducted on the bitumen and aggregates to ensure specifications are met. Construction involves laying and compacting the bituminous concrete mixture using pavers and rollers.
The top layer of pavement, called bitumen coarse, provides structural support and transmits loads to lower layers. It is composed of bitumen, coarse and fine aggregates, and filler. The layer thickness is typically 50mm for the 19mm nominal size aggregate and 30-40mm for the 13.2mm size. Quality control tests are conducted on the bitumen and aggregates to ensure specifications are met. Construction involves laying and compacting the bituminous concrete mixture using pavers and rollers.
The top layer of pavement, called bitumen coarse, provides structural support and transmits loads to lower layers. It is composed of bitumen, coarse and fine aggregates, and filler. The layer thickness is typically 50mm for the 19mm nominal size aggregate and 30-40mm for the 13.2mm size. Quality control tests are conducted on the bitumen and aggregates to ensure specifications are met. Construction involves laying and compacting the bituminous concrete mixture using pavers and rollers.
The top layer of pavement, called bitumen coarse, provides structural support and transmits loads to lower layers. It is composed of bitumen, coarse and fine aggregates, and filler. The layer thickness is typically 50mm for the 19mm nominal size aggregate and 30-40mm for the 13.2mm size. Quality control tests are conducted on the bitumen and aggregates to ensure specifications are met. Construction involves laying and compacting the bituminous concrete mixture using pavers and rollers.
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Bitumen Coarse
Bitumen Coarse is the top layer of pavement and the layer that comes in direct contact with traffic. This layer should be able to withstand traffic and weather (High and low temperature, Rain) without exhibiting various distress like cracking, rutting etc. It may be composed of one or two layers as per the design.
Function Bitumen Coarse provides structural support to the pavement surface. This layer also transmits the load to the sub grade and sub base layer (DBM, WMM, and GSB).
