Compaction

Compaction

Clod Smashers

April 16, 2003
Buy a can of coffee at the store. Bring it home. Dump it out on the kitchen table. Then sweep it over the edge of the table so it falls back into the can and notice that it does...
Asphalt

Cracking the compactor code

April 16, 2003
Within the last couple of years, a number of high frequency vibratory rollers have hit the road building market. The trend is growing so rapidly that frequency has become the ...
Asphalt

Compaction Rollers and Testing Equipment Work to Provide a Quality Road Surface

Dec. 28, 2000
Double-drum rollers Compaction America Inc., Kewanee, Ill., offers the Hypac C766C vibratory double-drum compactor, designed with a computer control system that includes a microprocesso...
Asphalt

Compacting for Superpave Success

Dec. 28, 2000
A number of state highway departments have begun using the Superpave method to design their hot-mix asphalt (HMA) mixtures. In most cases, these mixtures have been able to be ...