The Asphalt Handbook for 70 years has served the asphalt industry as the primary reference manual for contractors, engineers, consultants, specifiers and user agencies. This edition of MS-4 showcases the latest asphalt technologies. Tpics covered Superpave asphalt binder, Superpave mix design, stone matrix asphalt, open graded friction courses, quality control & acceptance, pavement management, and rehabilitation of concrete pavements with HMA. Fully illustrated, 832 pages.
This book is thorough. If you're interested in hot mix asphalt (sounds like an album title) then this is the place to start.
And why should you be interested if you're not the sort of person who's going to make a batch of hot mix asphalt? Because we're surrounded by it. We walk on it, drive on it, live with it. It's an unremarked detail of our day-to-day routines yet it underpins what we do--and I mean almost all that we do--in fundamental ways.