Thickness Design - Asphalt Pavements for Highways and Streets (Manual Series No. 1)

This manual presents a structural thickness design procedure for pavements utilizing asphalt cement or emulsified asphalt in all, or part, of the structure. Included are various combinations of asphalt concrete surface, asphalt concrete base, emulsified asphalt base, and untreated aggregate base or subbase. Guidelines are offered for defining subgrade properties, material properties, and traffic values required for the selection of appropriate thickness of the pavement layers. In addition, there are procedures for stage construction design and economic analysis. Recommended compaction requirements also are included. Also included are thickness design charts for three typical sets of environmental conditions which represent most of North America.