Road Construction Materials and Construction Technologies Training Course

Course Overview:

The objective of the Road Construction Materials and Construction Technologies training course is to provide road construction engineers with additional skills and specific knowledge about the construction materials and techniques that assist in the construction of road pavements.

Disentangling the strategies of material design, and recognizing the material’s suitable purpose will be done adequately and improvisational standard procedures will also be incorporated.

The course addresses asphalt mixture types, methods of their designing (the Marshal method), and quality control and assurance issues in road building. Moreover, modern trends and technological devices in the process of construction are considered as well to help engineers take bold steps in this area. 

The target audience includes road construction engineers who anticipate working within the scope of design management, engineering supervision, and quality management of road construction sites.

Course Objectives:

By the end of this Road Construction Materials and Construction Technologies training course, participants will be able to:

• Identify the road materials and material properties in construction and materials used in road pavements etc.
•  Enumerate the different types of asphalt mixtures as well as the design of asphalt concrete mixture which also applies testing, specification of methods, and marshal method
• Implement quality control and quality assurance in road construction
• Enhancing the skills of road construction engineers in their field
• Introduction to road construction materials
• Determination of engineering properties of road materials
• Quality control and quality assurance in road construction

Who Should Attend?

Road Construction Materials and Construction Technologies Training is intended for:

• Road construction engineers working in road construction, and construction supervision of road projects.

Course Outlines:

 An introduction to road construction materials 

• The used materials for road embankment, and road pavement (gravel roads, surface dressed roads, paved roads, etc.)
• Material properties
• Soil and subbase: Standard tests to determine the engineering properties of road materials 
•  Standard tests to determine the engineering properties of road materials

Asphalt Mixtures

• Types of Asphalt Mixtures
• Hot mix asphalt concrete
• Worm mix asphalt concrete
• Cold mix asphalt concrete

Design of Asphalt Concrete Mixture

• Testing of materials used in the asphalt mix (coarse aggregate, fine aggregate, mineral filler, binder, etc.)
• Specification requirements
•  Blinding of aggregate
• Graduation of blinded aggregates
• Marshal method for design of asphalt mixtures; volumetric relationships, optimum bitumen content, tolerance, job mix formula

Quality Control and Quality Assurance in Road Construction

• The importance of quality control in road construction processes
• Selecting of materials sources
• Testing of materials
• Inspection of the executed work
• Testing the executed work
• Filling the test result for the quality assurance process
• Quality assurance in road construction processes

Road Construction Technology

• Introduction to the new technologies in road construction
• New equipment, new techniques used in road construction

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