​WHAT  is  asphalt?






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​​Asphalt is a mixture of aggregates, binder, and filler, used for
constructing and maintaining all kind of roads, parking areas but
also, play- and sports areas. Aggregates used for asphalt mixtures could be crushed rock, sand, gravel or slags. In order to bind the aggregates into a cohesive mixture, a binder is used. Most commonly, bitumen is used as a binder. An average
asphalt pavement consists of the road structure above the
formation level which includes unbound and bituminous-bound materials. This gives the pavement the ability to distribute the loads of the traffic before it arrives at the formation level. Normally, pavements are made of different layers:

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Asphalt layer by layer

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