Guidelines & Technical Notes
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The successful application of the stabilisation process requires an appropriate mix design, structural design, specification and contractor to reach  the full potential of the process.  The following technical notes and guidelines are documents that provide suitable reference material to achieve best practice in road stabilisation.

Guidelines

Australia's history allows each region to develop new terms, advice notes and guidelines.  AustStab is keen to adopt one set of guidelines across the country.

Terms

Terms commonly used in the stabilisation and road recycling industry. [Version A]

Life Cycle Costing

Life cycle costing of stabilised pavements. [Version A]

Traffic Estimates

Estimating the design traffic on stabilised pavements. [Version A]

Spread Rate

Verification of binder spread rate for insitu stabilisation. [Version B]

Binders

Australian Binders used for the Stabilisation and Road Recycling Market. [Version B]

Curing and Spray Sealing

Curing and spray sealing of stabilised roads [Version A] Currently being revised.

Site Investigation

Site investigations for the rehabilitation of low-trafficked roads using insitu recycling [Version A]

Verification of Application Rate

Verification of the binder application rate for insitu foamed bitumen stabilisation [Version A]

Layered Elastic Analysis of Stabilised Pavements

Examples and notes on the use of layered elastic programs for the design of road stabilisation [Version A]

 

Technical Notes

The following technical notes are for students and practitioners to gain a basic understanding of the stabilisation process.

Lime stabilisation practice

Understanding lime and its use in road stabilisation. [Version D September 2006]

Foamed bitumen stabilisation

Understand the process of foamed bitumen stabilisation of pavements. [Version A]

Stabilisation using dry powdered polymers

Discusses the use of dry powder polymer binders for road stabilisation. [Version B]

 

Construction tips

The association produces construction tips on a wide range of topics and which are updated as necessary.  For a full list, click here.

[2 Mar 2007]