Sensitivity of HMA Performance to Aggregate Shape Measured Using Conventional and Image Analysis Methods

Road Materials and Pavement Design

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 477-498

  Masad, Eyad ^a   Little, Dallas ^a   Sukhwani, Rajni ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregate; Hma; Image analysis; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008844539     PISSN: 14680629     EISSN: 21647402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14680629.2004.9689982     Document Type: Article

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