Construction Equipment

Intelligent Compaction Rollers Outsmart Soil and Asphalt

To illustrate the intelligent-compaction (IC) roller’s potential to increase production, Kevin Garcia—road and paving construction segment manager for Trimble Navigation—relates an experiment Trimble ...
Construction Equipment

Intelligent Compaction: Outsmarting Soil and Asphalt

Although the intelligent-compaction (IC) concept as applied to asphalt rollers has its critics, Bomag has a number of its BW190AD-4 HF models operating in North America with the company's Asphalt ...
For Construction Pros

Using Continuous Full Coverage Asphalt Testing Ensures Pavement Quality

The Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities is on the front line when it comes to promoting new technologies that give them continuous, full-coverage asphalt pavement density testing ...
Nature

Assessing paver screed compaction units and their impact on asphalt quality parameters through field trials

Ensuring the durability and longevity of asphalt pavements under traffic loads requires effective compaction during paving to resist deformation and withstand environmental stresses. While previous ...
Mining

Atlas Copco launched new version of intelligent compaction system during World of Asphalt

March 27, 2015 – COMMERCE CITY, Colo. – Atlas Copco’s new, easy-to-use intelligent compaction system gives contractors real-time material stiffness readings to ensure superior soil and asphalt ...
For Construction Pros

Roller retrofit challenges long-standing approach to asphalt compaction

A kit that retrofits static and vibratory steel rollers and challenges the long-standing method of relying on vibration to compact asphalt pavement is under development and is being tested in Canada.