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Assignment 2 Highway Engineering

If choosing between recycled and waste materials for road construction, I would select used rubber tires. Tires occupy significant landfill space and their disposal poses economic and environmental challenges like difficulties extinguishing fires. There are two ways to use tires in asphalt - blending shredded rubber into hot asphalt cement, or mixing rubber into hot aggregates before adding asphalt cement. Additionally, tires can be used in the subgrade by shredding them for lightweight fill or placing whole tires or sidewalls for slope reinforcement in embankments. Tire sidewalls can also be laid as mats or strips in the subgrade to increase stability, allowing steeper slopes and earthquake resistance while being economical.

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Assignment 2 Highway Engineering

If choosing between recycled and waste materials for road construction, I would select used rubber tires. Tires occupy significant landfill space and their disposal poses economic and environmental challenges like difficulties extinguishing fires. There are two ways to use tires in asphalt - blending shredded rubber into hot asphalt cement, or mixing rubber into hot aggregates before adding asphalt cement. Additionally, tires can be used in the subgrade by shredding them for lightweight fill or placing whole tires or sidewalls for slope reinforcement in embankments. Tire sidewalls can also be laid as mats or strips in the subgrade to increase stability, allowing steeper slopes and earthquake resistance while being economical.

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1.

Discuss what are important tests necessary to investigate the properties of road
materials on-site and explain your choice of tests.

In order to be able to act as a decent substance, road materials must have some good features.
Some of the characteristics are stability, strong irrigation, very good run-off, and compaction
simplicity. The broad variety of soil conditions accessible as road building materials has made
mandatory for the type of soil because it can impact the pavement whether in the good outcome
or bad. The poor type of soil can cause the pavement to fail such as crack and deform. The
results of geotechnical tests enable design engineers to ensure that foundations are the
appropriate type and depth, and that suitable construction materials and methods are employed.
Inadequate or improper testing, or failure to implement the results of tests, can lead to costly
failures which may also threaten safety and lives. Test data can then be used to ensure that the
soil is able to support the proposed structure in the long-term and enable the creation of
technical and safety data reports to support planning permissions and licence applications.
There are many types of tests to investigate the soil profile.

Firstly, standard soil testing method which is to ensure uniformity, reliability and
accuracy of materials testing, a large number of internationally accepted test standards have
been developed. These standards ensure that test results are comparable and apply equally
wherever the testing is conducted. Besides that, is moisture content test, the measurement of
moisture content is probably the single most important geotechnical test and has the advantage
of being equally valid on disturbed and undisturbed samples. Moisture content can be assessed
in the field. The portable Speedy Moisture Tester employs a technique based on the fact that
water reacts with calcium carbide to form a gas, and that the quantity of gas formed is directly
proportional to the amount of water present. Other than that, compaction test which can study
about the physical characteristics of the soils. Compaction can be undertaken by mechanical
means such as rolling, ramming or vibrating, and soil testing enables the achievement of
optimal compaction at an acceptable cost. Compaction tests enable an assessment of the
moisture content for the most efficient compaction, and the relationship between dry density
and moisture content for a given degree of compactive effort, as well as the value of the
maximum dry density achieved.
2. Given the choice to construct a road using recycled or waste materials, what will be
your selection, why do you use it and explain clearly how do you use it in the road
construction?

If I will construct a road using recycled or waste materials, I will use rubber tires because tires
occupy a large landfill space and disposal of large quantities of rubber tyres has many economic
and environment implications such as fire hazard which is once set ablaze, they are almost
impossible to extinguish.

There are two processes to use rubber tyres ain asphalt pavements which is wet process
blends tyres with hot asphalt cement that allows the rubber to fully reacts in mixing tanks to
produce an asphalt-rubber binder or the dry process mixes tyres with hot aggregates at the hot
mix asphalt facility before adding to asphalt cement to produce rubber-modified hot mix
asphalt mixture.

I will use tires in subgrade and there are two techniques to incorporate waste tires in
subgrade are to use shredded tires as a lightweight fill material and to use whole tires or their
sidewalls for oil reinforcement in embankment construction. Both techniques are practical and
have been researched by some of the state highway agencies. The concept of using tires in
embankment is also extended to enhance the stability of steep slopes along the highways, for
temporary protection of slopes, for retaining of forest roads, and for protection of coastal roads
from erosion.

Besides that, I will use rubber tyres for soil reinforcement in a pavement. This method
involves the use of tire sidewalls as mats or strips in subgrade to increase stability. This is
because the systematic inclusion of tire sidewalls benefits a fill and thus permits steeper side
slopes and increase resistance to earthquake loading. This application is economical, results in
moderate face settlement, and may have aesthetic and environmental implications.

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