COMPACT ASPHALT AND TWIN-LAYER POROUS ASPHALT LAID BY THE COMPACT MODULE PAVER

In spite of continuously increasing loads of traffic areas and the resulting demand for high-quality construction materials, particularly for asphalt wearing courses, the normal structure of asphalt pavements in Germany has currently been nade of a minimum 4 cm thick wearing course and an 8 cm thick asphalt binder layer. Since 1995 there is a possibility to produce the asphalt wearing course in one single process using a special construction method. From that time on, the characteristics of both layers can be optimized and the thickness of the wearing course can simultaneously be reduced to 2 cm. This type of construction is called Asphalt. Meanwhile, the Compact Asphalt stands for a new generation of permanently light, noise-reduced and deformation-resistant asphalt pavements of good grip. For the covering abstract see ITRD E121480.