Page 48 - Unit 2: Pavement Material

Civil Engineering Department | DCC3113 : Highway & Traffic Engineering

Design of asphaltic concrete mix
AC Mix
using Marshall Mix Design Method

• Developed by Bruce Marshall for the Mississippi Highway Department in the late 30’s and
was refined by the US Army Corps of Engineers in the 1940s and 1950s.

• OBJECTIVE : To determine the optimum bitumen content in the mix wearing course and
binder course in designing the pavement structural of flexible pavement

• Procedures

Plotting test results
Marshall Mix Design and determination
Method Aggregate Sample preparation Density Marshall stability of optimum
evaluation determination and flow test
Procedures bitumen content
(OBC)

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