The manual provides step by step directions for sampling and testing of highway materials. These methods must be followed closely in order to ensure that the data produced is accurate and acceptable for quality control.

The manual provides information for training of materials technicians. It should also be used by engineers and supervisors as a reference on official testing methods for contract control.

Added information is provided at the end of many of the procedures to alert technician to special precautions required for good results. These paragraphs may also contain background information about the test of references for further study if desired.

0.  INDEX

• 0-1 Numeric Subject Index

INTRODUCTION

• 1-1 Purpose of Manual

• 1-2 Organization of Testing Facilities

• 1-3 Outline of Test Procedures

100 SAMPLING

• 101 Summary Schedule for Construction Materials

• 102 Asphalts

• 103 Asphalt Mixtures

• 104 Soils

  • 104-1 Stratigraphic Holes

  • 104-2 Grade Holes

  • 104-3 Sampling for Borrow Type Material

  • 104-4 Subgrade Construction Control

  • 104-5 Group Index Sampling

  • 104-6 California Bearing Ratio Sampling

  • 105 Fine and Coarse Aggregates

  • 105-1 Seal Coat Aggregate from the Roadway

  • 106 Concrete

  • 107 Sampling Location by Random Method

  • 108 Rubber Crumb

  • 109 Signing Materials

  • 110 Paints

  • 111 Glass Beads

  • 112 Sodium Chloride Granular

  • 120 Miscellaneous Materials

  • 120-1 Pulverized Quicklime

200 TEST PROCEDURES

• 201 Asphalt Cements

  • 201-1 Viscosity by Vacuum Capillary Viscometer

  • 201-2 Viscosity by Sliding Plate Microviscometer

  • 201-3 Viscosity by Cone Plate Viscometer

  • 201-4 Viscosity by Brookfield Viscometer

  • 201-5 Penetration

  • 201-6 Ductility

  • 201-7 Flash Point (COC)

  • 201-8 Solubility in Trichloroethylene

  • 201-9 Thin Film Oven Test

  • 201-10 Rolling Thin Film Oven Test

  • 201-11 Xylene Spot Test

  • 201-12 Specific Gravity by Crucible

  • 201-13 Softening Point, Ring and Ball

  • 201-14 Abson Recovery

  • 201-15 Stiffness by Shell Plate Rheometer

  • 201-16 Viscosity-Temperature Relationship

  • 202 Cutback Asphalts

    • 202-1 Flash Point (Tag Open Cup)

    • 202-2 Viscosity by Gravity Capillary Viscometer

    • 202-3 Distillation

    • 202-4 Residue of Specified Penetration

    • 202-5 Specific Gravity by Hydrometer

    • 202-6 Penetration of Residue - See 201-5

    • 202-7 Ductility of Residue - See 201-6

• 203 Emulsified Asphalt
  • 203-1 Saybolt Viscosity

  • 203-2 Residue and Distillate by Distillation

  • 203-3 Settlement in Five Days

  • 203-4 Storage Stability

  • 203-5 Sieve Test

  • 203-6 Demulsibility

  • 203-7 Coating

  • 203-8 Cement Mixing

  • 203-9 Coating Ability and Water Resistance

  • 203-10 Particle Charge

  • 203-11 Penetration of Residue

  • 203-12 Ductility of Residue

  • 203-13 Solubility in Trichloroethylene

  • 203-14 Oil Distillate

  • 203-15 Workability

  • 203-16 Viscosity of Residue

  • 203-17 Float Test

  • 203-18 Elastic Recovery (Fr Polymer Modified Emulsions)

  • 203-19 Force Ductility (Fr Polymer Modified Emulsions)

  • 203-20 Distributor Application Rate

• 204 Asphalt Mixes

  • 204-1 Moisture Test by Oven Drying

  • 204-2 Asphalt Content by Centrifuge Extraction

  • 204-3 Asphalt Content by Nuclear Gauge

  • 204-4 Sieve Analysis

  • 204-5 Asphalt Concrete Samples Obtained by Coring

  • 204-6 Density-In-Place by Nuclear Gauge

  • 204-7 Asphalt Content by Bulk Measurement

  • 204-8 Preparation of Marshall compaction specimens

  • 204-9 Theoretical Maximum Specific Gravity

  • 204-10 Marshall Mix Design

  • 204-11 Marshall Stability and Flow

  • 204-12 Moisture by Reflux

  • 204-13 Volatiles by Reflux

  • 204-14 Splitting Tensile

  • 204-15 Stripping Potential

  • 204-16 Mix Design Using Emulsion

  • 204-17 Mix Design Using Cutback Asphalts

  • 204-18 Wet Track Abrasion

  • 204-19 Asphalt Film Thickness Determination

  • 204-20 Hveem Stability

  • 204-21 Density and Void Characteristics

  • 204-22 Retained Marshall Stability

  • 204-23 Extraction and Moisture Corrections

  • 204-24 Asphalt content by Reflux Extraction

  • 204-25 Abson Recovery of Asphalt

  • 204-26 Correlation of Nuclear Gauge Density and Laboratory Core Density

  • 204-27 Asphalt Content By Ignition Oven Method

• 205 Soils

  • 205-1 Atterberg Limits, Plasticity Index

  • 205-2 Group Index and Classification

  • 205-3 Moisture by Oven Drying

  • 205-4 Moisture by Speedy Tester

  • 205-5 Moisture-Density Proctor

  • 205-6 Density-In-Place by Sand Cone

  • 205-7 Density-In-Place by Nuclear Gauge

  • 205-8 Moisture by Microwave Oven

  • 205-9 Lump Density

  • 205-10 Mechanical Analysis, Hydrometer

  • 205-11 Organic Content of Soils

  • 205-12 Specific Gravity

  • 205-13 Modified Moisture-Density, Modified Proctor

  • 205-14 Sulphate Content

  • 205-15 Consolidation and swell

  • 205-16 Direct Shear

  • 205-17 Lab Penetration

  • 205-18 Lab Vane Shear

  • 205-19 Triaxial Shear

  • 205-20 Unconfined Compression Strength

  • 205-21 Density-In-Place by Volumeter

  • 205-23 California Bearing Ratio

  • 205-24 Suction

  • 205-25 Resilient Modulus

• 206 Aggregates

  • 206-1 Sieve Analysis

  • 206-2 Sieve Analysis - Concrete Mix Aggregates

  • 206-3 Moisture by Oven Drying

  • 206-4 Plasticity Index

  • 206-5 Sand Equivalent

  • 206-6 Moisture Content of Bituminous Mix Aggregates

  • 206-7.1 Specific Gravity-Fine Aggregate

  • 206-7.2 Specific Gravity-Coarse Aggregate

  • 206-8 Los Angeles Abrasion

  • 206-9 Lightweight Pieces in Aggregate

  • 206-10 Bulk Density-Dry Rodded

  • 206-11 California Bearing Ratio

  • 206-12 Organic Color Test

  • 206-13 Scratch Hardness

  • 206-14 Percent Fractured Face

  • 206-15 Clay Lumps and Friable Particles in Aggregates

• 207 Concrete

  • 207-1 Compressive Strength

  • 207-2 Entrained Air

  • 207-3 Slump

  • 207-4 Freeze-Thaw Resistance

  • 207-5 Mix Design

  • 207-6 Absorption

  • 207-7 Permeability

  • 207-8 Three Edge Bearing Strength - Culverts

  • 207-9 Flexural Strength

  • 207-10 Sodium Chloride Content of Hardened Concrete

  • 207-11 Density of Fresh Concrete

• 208 Cement Treated Soils

  • 208-1 Cement Content

  • 208-2 Sieve Analysis

  • 208-3 Moisture-Density Test - Proctor

  • 208-4 Compressive Strength

  • 208-5 Density-In-Place by Nuclear Gauge

  • 208-6 Density-In-Place by Sand Cone

  • 208-7 Mix Design by Short Cut Method

  • 208-8 Mix Design by Wet-Dry and Freeze-Thaw Method

• 209 Miscellaneous Chemicals for Construction

  • 209-1 Slaking Rate of Pulverized Quicklime

  • 209-2 Sieve Analysis of Lime

  • 209-3 Lime Content of Treated Soils

  • 209-4 Fixation Point of Lime Treated Soils

  • 209-5 Chemical Analysis of Calcium Chloride

  • 209-6 Calcium Chloride Content of Treated Soils

  • 209-7 Chemical Analysis of Sodium Chloride

  • 209-8 Moisture and Sieve Analysis of Sodium Chloride

  • 209-10 Chloride Content of Soils by Potentiometric Titration

  • 209-12 Insoluble Matter Content of Sodium Chloride

• 210 Traffic Marking Paint

  • 210-1 Viscosity

  • 210-2 Drying Time

  • 210-3 Hiding Power

  • 210-4 Package Stability

  • 210-5 Flexibility

  • 210-6 Bleeding

  • 210-7 Application and Evaluation of In-Service Test Stripes

  • 210-8 Luminous Reflectorance

• 211 Glass Beads - Reflectorizing

  • 211-1 Sieve Analysis

  • 211-2 Roundness

  • 211-3 Imperfections

  • 211-4 Crushing Strength

  • 211-5 Moisture Resistance

• 212 Reflectorized Sheeting for Signs

  • 212-1 Weathering Resistance by Natural Exposure

  • 212-2 Adhesion

  • 212-3 Cold Cracking

  • 212-4 Colour by Visual Evaluation

  • 212-5 Weathering Resistance by Weather-ometer

  • 212-6 Reflectance

  • 212-7 Colour by Spectrometer

• 213 Water

  • 213-1 Chemical Analysis

  • 213-2 Evaluation for use in Concrete

• 214 Rubber Crumb

  • 214-1 Sieve Analysis and Moisture Test

  • 214-2 Test for Deleterious Materials

  • 214-3 Rubber-Asphalt Reaction Time

  • 214-4 Rubber-Asphalt Viscosity

  • 214-5 Rebound

• 215 Geotextile and Geogrids

  • 215-1 Grab Test

  • 215-2 Wide Test

  • 215-3 Mass of Fabrics

  • 215-4 Burst Strength - Ball Burst Test

• 219 Miscellaneous Procedures

  • 219-1 Conductivity Water or Soil Water, Miller Soil Box

  • 219-2 Conductivity by Single Probe

  • 219-3 Conductivity of Water or Slurries by Meter

  • 219-4 Resistivity by Four Point Method-Vibraground

  • 219-5 Gypsum Block Suction Gauge - Manufacture, Installation

  • 219-6 Thermocouples

  • 219-7 Frost Gauge - Manufacture, Installation and Reading

  • 219-8 Moisture and Density by Nuclear Depth Gauge

  • 219-9 Field C.B.R. Test

• 220 Benkelman Beam Test

  • 220-1 Policy and Basis of Yearly Program

  • 220-2 Method

  • 220-3 Report

  • 220-4 Radius of Curvature

• 221 Car Road Meter Test

  • 221-1 Policy and Basis of Yearly Program

  • 221-2 Method

  • 221-3 Report

• 222 Profilometer Test

  • 221-1 Program

  • 222-2 Method

  • 222-3 Report

  • 222-4 Roughness Profile with Profilograph

  • 222-5 Roughness Profile with High Speed Profilograph

• 223 Skid Resistance of Skid Trailer

  • 223-1 Program

  • 223-2 Method

  • 223-3 Report

  • 224 Riding Comfort of Gravel Roads by Panel

• 240 Foundation Investigation

  • 240-1 Sampling Procedures

  • 240-2 Borehole Logging

  • 240-3 Electric Logging

  • 240-4 Cone Penetration

  • 240-5 Dutch Cone Penetration

  • 240-6 Standard Penetration - Split Spoon

  • 240-7 Piezometer Installation - Standpipe

  • 240-8 Piezometer Installation - Pneumatic

  • 240-9 Piezometer Installation - Bureau of Reclamation

  • 240-10 Bench Mark Installation

  • 240-11 Settlement Plate Installation - Rod Type

  • 240-12 Settlement Plate Installation - Remote Reading

  • 240-13 Slope Indicator Casing Installation

  • 240-14 Slope Indicator Measuring

  • 240-15 Pump Testing

  • 240-16 Vane Shear

  • 240-17 Vane Borer

  • 240-18 Pressuremeter

  • 240-19 Grouting Procedure

  • 240-20 Dynamic Cone Penetrometer

  • 301 General Statistical Principles and Definitions

  • 302 Sampling Plans

300 STATISTICAL QUALITY CONTROL PRINCIPLES

• 303 Presentation of Data

  • 303-1 Guidelines for the Use of Significant Figures and Rounding

• 304 Interpretation of Results

  • 304-1 Poisson Distribution Method

  • 304-2 Statistical Comparison of Two Data Sets

  • 304-3 Interlaboratory Testing Programs

• 400 QUALITY ASSURANCE FOR CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS

  • 400 Contractor Quality Control Plan