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What's your application? If you're paving a road with very little traffic, a driveway, or just doing patching, you can use cold mix. However, when it come to major roadways with high levels of traffic, it's universally going to be hot mix.
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What is hot mix asphalt?
The main asphalt paving product is hot mix asphalt, in which asphalt cement is used to bind a mixture of stone, sand, and gravel.
What is the difference between cold mix asphalt and cutback asphalt?
Cold Mix Asphalt is a mixture of aggregate and asphalt. Cutback asphalt is a liquid asphalt. Cold Mix Asphalt is a mixture of Aggregate and Asphalt. The Asphalt is usually am emulsion asphalt or a cutback asphalt. An emulsion asphalt is asphalt cement blended with water. Cutback asphalt is asphalt cement blended with a fuel oil, kerosene, or a naptha. The water, fuel oil, kerosene or Naphta evaporates and leaves the asphalt.
How do you get the specific gravity of aggregates in cold mix asphalt?
give me a blowjob then i will tell u the answer.
What is the mix proportion of cold mix asphalt?
Mix equal amount of CSS-1 emulsified asphalt with water at 30 degrees Celsius and after 15 minutes spray at 0.2 l/m2 at the surface prepared.
How many degrees is asphalt mix while first being laid?
Between 250 and 280 is typical for hot mix.
What is the difference between hot asphalt and cold asphalt?
Hot mix asphalt is is heated for application, which thins the material. Remember those steaming metal buckets you used to see on industrial rooftops? Cold asphalt is liquified with something else besides heat. There are two kinds: Emulsified asphalt is mixed with water and an emulsifying agent. Think of it like salad dressing that does not separate in the bottle. The other kind is called Cutback asphalt and is mixed with a petroleum solvent such as naptha, gasoline, or kerosene. They both are liquids at ambient temperature when applied; then the solvent or water evaporates, leaving the asphalt behind. Look up at asphaltinstitute.org
How much does hot mix asphalt compact?
The short answer would be 1/4 to every inch.
Why do you pour hot water into cold water to get a better mix?
I guess beacues you don't want to burn your self.
Which would be the best type of equipment for compacting cold mix asphalt on a small patch?
hand crank
Is west Australia current hot or cold?
It is a mix at the moment...hot somedays,raining and cold the next.
What is a asphalt?
Hot-mix asphalt concrete is a mixture of aggregate (crushed stone, gravel and sand) and asphalt binder. asphalt is a hydrocarbon mixture which makes the road.
What is it called when hot and cold water mix?
the hot and cold water become together then they make an equal tempature. warm :)
