Guide to Asphalt Paving by Caterpillar Paving Guidebooks

Guide to Asphalt Paving by Caterpillar Paving Products

(2016 Caterpillar Paving Products Guidebooks)

This hands-on reference guide is helpful to all personnel responsible for the planning, preparation and placement of asphalt pavement including crew members and crew supervisors; estimators, project managers and project superintendents; and quality control and quality assurance personnel. While some applications are discussed in detail, covering every situation is impossible due to the many asphalt-paving variables applied regionally or locally around the world. The 300-page Caterpillar Paving Products Guide to Asphalt Paving is an easy-to-read ready reference that is supported by 400 color photos and illustrative graphic elements. An overview of the comprehensive contents is outlined in the unit headings: Unit 1 - The Basics of Asphalt Production, Unit 2 - Pre-Project Planning, Unit 3 - Fundamentals of Paving, Unit 4 - Preparing to Pave with Vibratory Screeds, Unit 5 - Preparing to Pave Using Tamping Screeds with Vibration, Unit 6 - Automatic Grade and Slope Control, Unit 7 - Paving Applications, Unit 8 - Troubleshooting Guide, and Glossary of Terms. Information in this guidebook consistently refers back to the four basic elements of constructing quality asphalt layers: 1. Utilizing fundamentals correctly every time 2. Paving efficiently 3. Understanding grade and slop requirements 4. Avoiding big mistakes Paving managers, supervisors, quality control personnel, paver and screed operators, and crew personnel can easily relate to the many user tips for achieving mat smoothness and project grade and slope specifications, and suggestions for avoiding problems.

• Paperback: 300 pages

• Publisher: High Velocity Communications Inc.; 1st edition (2016)

• Language: English

• ISBN-10: 1939945305

• ISBN-13: 978-1939945303