Achieving Quality of Asphalt Emulsion

Offered in partnership with the University of Arkansas College of Engineering, this course will help you gain an understanding of the different perspective of quality when considering asphalt emulsion-based maintenance and rehabilitation treatments for flexible pavements. This course takes approximately 16 hours to complete and registrants will have 4 weeks to complete the class. Participants can download and print 135 pages of reference material to put on their shelf. Please click here to download the front matter of the reference material. Upon completion, if requested, 15 professional development hours will be awarded.

In order to ensure long lasting, less expensive roadways through pavement preservation, maintenance, and rehabilitation, it is critical to ensure quality is met at all stages of asphalt emulsion’s life. This certificate will provide a basic background on the design, manufacturing, and field construction that will set the stage to examine and explore quality control and quality assurance in each of these phases of construction. In addition, guidance will be provided on best practices in developing and assembling a quality control/quality assurance plan. Finally, case studies will be provided at the state, county, and city level from a public perspective, and one private owner perspective. Throughout the entire process of pavement preservation, maintenance, and rehabilitation, ensuring the quality of asphalt emulsion is essential.

Learning Objectives

• Identify steps to achieve quality in laboratory design
• Explain practices to achieve quality in manufacturing
• Discuss techniques to achieve quality in field application
• Assemble a quality control/quality assurance plan
• Describe successful implementation to achieve quality using asphalt emulsions

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