Hot Mix Asphalt Concrete

The 1996 AHTD Standard Specifications for Highway Construction (the Blue Book, Section 400) and associated Supplemental specifications (SS-400-1, revised 3-30-00) reference the following tests and specifications for quality control, quality assurance, and standard practice for test methods associated with Asphalt Concrete Hot Mix Base, Binder, and Surface Courses.

	Wire Cloth Sieves	AASHTO M 92
	Weighing Devices	AASHTO M 231
	Superpave Volumetric Mix Design	AASHTO MP 2
	Sampling Aggregates	AASHTO T 2
	Materials Finer Than 75-mm (No. 200) Sieve by Washing	AASHTO T 11
	Sieve Analysis of Aggregates	AASHTO T 27
	Mechanical Analysis of Extracted Aggregate	AASHTO T 30
	Specific Gravity and Absorption of Fine Aggregate	AASHTO T 84
	Specific Gravity and Absorption of Coarse Aggregate	AASHTO T 85
	Bulk Specific Gravity (SSD) of Compacted Mixtures	AASHTO T 166
	Sampling Paving Mixtures	AASHTO T 168
	Theoretical Maximum Specific Gravity and Density of Paving Mixtures	AASHTO T 209
	Plastic Flow Using Marshall Apparatus	AASHTO T 245
	Reducing Samples of Aggregate	AASHTO T 248
	Total Moisture Content of Aggregate	AASHTO T 255
	Percent Air Voids in Compacted Dense and Open Paving Mixtures	AASHTO T 269
	Preparing and Determining the Density of HMA Specimens by the SHRP Gyratory Compactor	AASHTO T 312
	Determination of Asphalt Content of by the Nuclear Method	AHTD 449
	Calibration of Asphalt Content Gauge Troxler 3421-C	AHTD 449a
	Water Sensitivity for Compacted Mixtures	AHTD 455
	Inplace Density, % Compaction, of HMA Using a Nuclear Gauge	AHTD 461
	Voids in Mineral Aggregate (VMA) and Voids Filled with Asphalt (VFA)	AHTD 464
	Sampling by Random Number Table	AHTD 465