The future doesn't sound so much like fantastical ideas of fleets of earth moving robots prepping jobsites for compaction robots to lay the foundation for paving robots. However, the role of humans on ...

Placing asphalt is only a single battle in the war to reach project specifications. What comes after paving — breakdown, intermediate and finish compaction — is where bonus checks are often earned (or ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Proper asphalt compaction is the key to ensuring the life of roads, and finding new ways to measure that compaction is seen as the key to improving infrastructure construction. To extend the life of ...

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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 ...

In cooperation with eleven road construction companies, the University of Twente is working on improving asphalt roads in the Netherlands. By using new technology during the asphalt paving process, ...

Pairing Trimble Roadworks with GSSI delivers pass-by-pass compaction data that helps crews monitor asphalt density as work happens and standardize results across a paving train. Trimble Roadworks is a ...

The reuse of waste materials and residual aggregates as well as the reduction of emissions has become vitally important for the environment, the economy and logistics of the asphalt paving industry.