| Guidelines, Technical Notes & Construction Tips |
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, guidelines and construction tips 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 commonly used in the stabilisation and road recycling industry. [Version A]
Life cycle costing of stabilised pavements. [Version A]
Estimating the design traffic on stabilised pavements. [Version A]
Verification of binder spread rate for insitu stabilisation. [Version B]
Australian Binders used for the Stabilisation and Road Recycling Market. [Version B]
Curing and spray sealing of stabilised roads [Version A] Currently being revised.
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]
The following technical notes are for students and practitioners to gain a basic understanding of the stabilisation process.
Understanding lime and its use in road stabilisation. [Version D September 2006]
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]
The following construction tips are for practitioners to ensure best practice is adopted on site. Also, refer to the construction page for more information, click here.
Understanding the difference between stabilisers, reclaimers and profilers. [Version A]
Suitable short-term patching using stabilisation principles. [Version B]
Mixing the powder binder is crucial to the success of stabilisation.
Provides practical advice on how best to dictate the width of a rehabilitation patch.
The steam cloud emanating from the slaking of quicklime
Important practical OHS advice on the slaking process of quicklime.
Pavement crossblending prior to stabilisation
Best practice techniques for crossblending prior to insitu stabilisation.
Achieving density in stabilised materials using static compaction
Stabilised layers can be compacted by dynamic and static methods by the right equipment and technique.
[10 Nov 2008]