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Highway Pavement Materials

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Tar has been used for many years in road construction both as a binder for macadam and as a surface dressing initially on waterbound roads. Road tar is today specified in BS 761 by the following definition: ‘tar for use in road work is prepared entirely from crude tars produced wholly or substantially as a by-product in the carbonisation of coal at above 600 °C in externally heated retorts or coke ovens’.

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    R. J. Salter

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Salter, R.J. (1988). Highway Pavement Materials. In: Highway Design and Construction. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10067-5_1

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