![]() The flexible pavements have a wearing course (the top few cms of the highway which is expected to get wear and tear due to traffic movement) which is made up of high quality fine asphaltic concrete.Īsphalt is basically combination of bitumen and aggregate, the surface of aggregates are applied with bitumen and then bitumen acts as a binding agent that makes it a solid and firm material called asphaltic concrete. We would not here go into the details of these but as far as flexible pavements are concerned these are one of the most common, high riding quality paved roads on earth. Flexible pavement deforms slightly under the application of the dynamic load of traffic whereas rigid pavement is the one that stands firm and it bridges the voids and gaps in the underneath bearing soil. ![]() ![]() The transportation engineers, know that the two basic types of pavements is rigid pavement or flexible pavement. You know asphalt pavements have the highest riding quality among all others Job-mix Formula Name of Project: Asphalt Overlay project along JP Rizal Makati City,km 292.7 to 592.5 I. The shining blackish paved road we ride almost every day and almost several hours of our lives are spent over them is asphaltic pavements. The word asphalt, asphaltic concrete, bituminous mixes all is pointing to the same things almost.
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