UFC 3-260-03
15 Apr 01
APPENDIX B
SAMPLING AND TESTING METHODS
B-1. INTRODUCTION. The following tabulation lists the sampling and testing normally performed in
evaluating pavements. Many of these are standard, published methods, and the tabulation indicates the
publication in which each standard method may be found. Some of the methods used are not described
in readily available publications and therefore are described in subsequent paragraph herein.
Publication
Samples or Test
Sampling Bituminous Paving Mixtures
ASTM D 979
Pavement cores
TM 5-825-2/AFM 88-6, Chap. 2
Unit weight, marshall stability, and flow of bituminous mixtures
CRD-C 649
Density and percent voids of compacted bituminous paving
CRD-C 650
mixtures
In-place density, sand cone method
ASTM D-1556
In-place (field) CBR
CRD-C 654
Laboratory CBR relations of soils
CRD-C 654
Moisture-density relations of soils
CRD-C 653
Sieve analysis
ASTM C 136
Particle size analysis
ASTM D 422
Specific gravity of soils
ASTM D 854
Specific gravity and absorption of coarse aggregate
ASTM C 127
Specific gravity and absorption of fine aggregate
ASTM C 128
Moisture content of soil or aggregate (total sample)
ASTM D 2216
In-place density, drive cylinder method
ASTM D 2937
Liquid limit, plastic limit, and plasticity of soils
ASTM D 4318
Recovery of asphalt from solution by Abson method
ASTM D 1856
Extraction of bitumen from bituminous paving mixtures
ASTM D 2172
Recompaction of asphaltic concrete
Described below
Penetration of bituminous materials
ASTM D 5
Ductility of bituminous materials
ASTM D 113
Softening point of asphalt and tar materials
ASTM D 36
Test for bitumen
ASTM D 4
Soils Sampling
Described below
Plate-bearing tests
CRD-C 655
Classification tests
ASTM D 2487
Sampling and preparation of test specimens
ASTM C 42
Flexural strength of concrete
ASTM C 78 as modified below
Compressive strength tests
ASTM C 39
Splitting tensile strength tests
ASTM C 496
Specific gravity of concrete
ASTM C 642
Absorption by concrete
ASTM C 642
Voids in concrete
ASTM C 642
Flexural strength of soil-cement
ASTM D 1635
Deep, quasi-static, cone and friction-cone
ASTM D 3441
penetration tests of soils
Description and application of dual-mass dynamic
FM 5-430-00-2/AFJPAM
cone penetrometer
32-8013, Vol II, Appendix J
Note: ASTM is the designation of standards and test methods issued by the American Society for
Testing and Materials, 1916 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103.
B-2. RECOMPACTION OF ASPHALTIC CONCRETE. Samples of existing pavements may be recom-
pacted in the laboratory for comparison with the in-place conditions. The samples of pavement should
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