Highway Materials and Construction

Properties, quality requirements of highway materials; subgrades, subbases, bases and asphalt pavements. Construction
procedures and plants. Compaction control. Asphalt pavement types, bituminous materials and mineral aggregates. Surface
treatment, hot-mix asphalt(HMA) design and calculations. Typical failures of asphalt pavements and diagnosis of probable
causes in the area. Site visits to observe the production of aggregates, HMA plant and laboratory in the local area.