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Technologies to Enhance Quality Control on Asphalt Pavements (R06C)


Technologies to Enhance Quality Control on Asphalt Pavements (R06C)

Product Overview

Real-time, high-speed nondestructive testing (NDT) of asphalt pavements during construction can greatly improve quality, durability, and performance, stretching highway dollars and extending service life. Technologies to Enhance Quality Control on Asphalt Pavements (R06C) offers products aimed at providing real-time testing of potentially 100 percent of the pavement area, providing much more inspection coverage than existing methods in hot- or warm-mix construction. R06C includes two products:

  • Paver Mounted Thermal Profiler, which measures thermal segregation
  • GPR Rolling Density Meter (RDM) system, which measures density

Through an equipment purchase and demonstration program, showcase, and targeted workshops, selected states are receiving hands-on experience using these technologies under varying conditions.

Paver-Mounted Thermal Profiler (or IR) Materials (R06C)

Primer and Guidance Documents
Case Studies
Presentations, Workshops, and Showcases

Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) Rolling Density Meter Materials

Reports and Guidance Documents
Presentations, Workshops, Peer Exchanges, and Showcases
Related Materials and Information for Both Products
Implementation Assistance Program
  • These states implemented the R06C Paver Mounted Thermal Profiler technology through the Implementation Assistance Program: Alabama, Alaska, Illinois, Maine, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and Eastern Federal Lands.
  • These states implemented the R06C GPR Rolling Density Meter technology through the Implementation Assistance Program: Maine, Minnesota, and Nebraska.
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Workers pave an airport road at
Anchorage International Airport
using Pave-IR equipment.

 

The IR scanner and GPS unit mounted high above the paving screed in Fort Belvoir, VA.


 

Field display unit for real-time monitoring of IR scanner temperature data mounted to a paver in St. Joseph, MO.


 

University of Minnesota demonstrates taking core samples. The GPR RDM equipment provides specific locations for core samples, reducing the number of cores needed and providing more accurate measuring.


 

MnDOT demonstrates the safer option of vehicle mounted GPR antennae gathering GPR RDM data that they analyze using VETA software.


 

Charting real time GPR results in the vehicle helps detect the density, uniformity and paving issues present in asphalt applications to allow just in time construction adjustments which reward the contractor for correct contractor techniques.