sheet asphalt
sheet asphalt
[′shēt ′as‚fȯlt] (materials)
Asphalt which provides a smooth surface and is used for continuous road surfacing.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
sheet asphalt
Plant-mixed asphalt cement with graded sand which passes through a 2.00-mm (No. 10) sieve and mineral filler; its use ordinarily is confined to surface course construction and most frequently is laid on a binder course.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Very rigid requirements as to grading and other properties are used in specifying the aggregate to be used in hot-mix asphaltic concrete,
sheet asphalt, and portland cement concrete.
The most important of these mixtures are asphaltic concrete and
sheet asphalt, both of which use asphalt cement as a binder.
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