1119-197 STANDARD SPECIFICATION AND CODE OF PRACTICE FOR WATER BOUND MACADAM (Second Revision) THE INDIAN ROADS CONGRESS 1996iRC : 19.1977 STANDARD SPECIFICATION AND CODE OF PRACTICE FOR WATER BOUND MACADAM (Second Revision) Published by THE INDIAN ROADS CONGRESS Jamanagr House, Shabjahan Road, ‘New Delbi-110 011 1996 Price Rs. 32.00 (Plus Packing & Postage)IRC : 1941977 First Published in April, 1966 Reprinted Reprinted : February, 1970 : May, 1972 First Revision: November, 1972 Second Revision : May, 1977 Reprinted Reprinted Reprinted Reprinted September, 1982 + March, 1987 (incorporates amendment No. I & corrected Sieve sizes) : May, 1988 + August, 1996 (Rights of Publication and of Translation are reserved) Printed at Sagar Printers and Publishers, New Delhi-110003 (500 copies) ine: 19.197 STANDARD SPECIFICATION AND CODE OF PRACTICE FOR WATER BOUND MACADAM 1. INTRODUCTION Ll. This standard was originally published in 1965. The revised standard was considered and approved by the Specifications and Standards Committee in their mecting held on the 29th & 30th September, 1972 and by the Executive Committee in their meeting held at Gandhinagar on the 25th November, 1972. Later, it was approved for publication as the finalised standard by the Council in hele 79th meeting also held at Gandhinagar on the 25th November, 1.2, Following the decision of the IRC Council at its meeting held on the 28th August 1976, the tolerances of surface evenness have been revised on the basis of IRC Special Publication 16 “Sur- face Evenness of Highway Pavements”. 1.3. The Standard is intended to indicate what is consi- dered “to be a good practice for the construction of water bound macadam and surface treated water bound macadam. 2. DESCRIPTION 2.1, Water bound macadam shall consist of clean crushed coarse “aggregates mechanically interlocked by rolling, and voids thereof filled with screening and binding material with the assistance of water, laid on a prepared subgrade, sub-base, base or existing pavement as the case may be. Water bound macadam may be used as a sub-base, base course or surfacing course. In each cate, it shall be constructed in accordance with the specifications. given below and in conformity with the lines, grades and cross-sections shown on the drawings or as otherwise directed, 3, MATERIALS 3.1. Coarse Aggregates—General Requirements 3.l.1, Coarse aggregates. shall be either crushed or broken stone, crushed slag, overburnt brick metal or naturally occurring fuuregntes such as kankar of laterite of requisite quality a stated ‘hereinafter. ‘The aggregates shall conform to the physical requi ments set forth in Table 1. 3.1.2. Crushed or broken stone: Crushed or broken stone shall be hard, durable and generally free from. flat, elongated, soft