Listen Up! Challenges for Asphalt Balanced Mixture Design Implementation and How the Research Community Can Help

The design of asphalt mixtures for use in infrastructure applications has generated significant research and focus over recent years. Recent advancements in mechanical testing of asphalt mixtures, often referred to as "performance tests," brought to the asphalt community the concept of Balanced Mix Design (BMD) and the use of these tests to augment or go beyond volumetric design.

TR Circular E-C293: Listen Up! Challenges for Asphalt Balanced Mixture Design Implementation and How the Research Community Can Help, from the Transportation Research Board, summarizes a session titled “Balanced Mix Design Implementation Challenges and Tools” delivered at the 2023 TRB Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.