Asphalt concrete

Asphalt concrete is a composite material.^[1] It is commonly used to build roads, parking lots, airports, and embankment dams.^[2] Asphalt mixtures have been used in making pavements since the beginning of the twentieth century.^[3] It is made up of mineral aggregate bound together with asphalt. The process was made by Edward De Smedt.^[4]

1. ↑ The American Heritage dictionary of the English language (5th ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2011. ISBN 978-0-547-04101-8. OCLC 701330646.
2. ↑ "International Water Power and Dam Construction". 2012-07-07. Archived from the original on 2012-07-07. Retrieved 2021-05-09.
3. ↑ Polaczyk, Pawel; Huang, Baoshan; Shu, Xiang; Gong, Hongren (2019-09-01). "Investigation into Locking Point of Asphalt Mixtures Utilizing Superpave and Marshall Compactors". Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering. 31 (9): 04019188. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)MT.1943-5533.0002839. ISSN 1943-5533. S2CID 197635732.
4. ↑ Reid, Carlton (2015). Roads were not built for cars : How cyclists were the first to push for good roads & became the pioneers of motoring. Washington, DC. ISBN 978-1-61091-688-2. OCLC 906025798.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)