Smoothness: Paving Tip and Other Resources
The Smoothness Playbook was the topic in the most recent RoadReady newsletter. An additional best practice add to the Smoothness Playbook is to maintain the proper head of material behind the screed. Here is a slide from our Paver Operations course to help illustrate the impacts of not maintaining proper head of material.
In addition to our Paver Operations course, we would recommend that you check out the following resources for more information on smoothness:
- The Pavement Interactive article on Roadway Roughness.
- Everything You Wanted to Know About IRI, But Were Afraid to Ask! describes the history of roughness measurement and helps explains the physical meaning of IRI.
- Smoothness Matters is a publication put out by the Asphalt Pavement Alliance and looks in depth at the correlation between smooth roads and decreased vehicle fuel consumption.
Let us know if you have any additional resources on smoothness as we’d love to include them here on our blog!
Tags: Paver Operations, Resources, smoothness, Training