Sampling Frequency

Sampling Frequency

serial Characteristic Sampling Frequency Point of Sampling

subgrade 1 classification- CBR - Proctor one test each 5000 cubic meters In-place after or before compaction
(Bottom of Aggregate Base
Course ) Minimum of 8 nuclear gage or 5 sand cone density tests on each 5,000
2 compaction In-place after compaction
square meter lot for each layer constructed.

Aggregate Gradation All Sieves,
1 meters of aggregate produced and one (1) test for each twenty-five hundred From the windrow or roadbed after processing
Sand Equivalent and CBR, Abrasion Loss
Aggregate Base Course
1. Gradation, sand equivalent and plasticity index - One (1) test each per one
thousand (1000) cubic meters of aggregates produced but not less than one
(1) per
production day.
2. Abrasion Loss - One (1) test for first, second and third five hundred (500)
cubic
(2500)
cubic meters thereafter.
3. Percent Crushed Faces - One (1) test for each five hundred (500) meters
of
aggregate produced.
4. CBR Value - One (1) test for each five thousand (5000) cubic meters.

Minimum 8 nuclear gage or 5 sand cone density tests per 10000 square
2 compaction In-place after compaction
meter

Bituminous material content Behind laydown machine before

1 Minimum of 5 samples per 10,000 square meter lot for each layer constructed
Aggregate Gradation All Sieves rolling

2 compaction
Minimum 5 cores per lot In-place after compaction
Bitumen Base Course
3 thickness
Minimum 5 cores per lot In-place after compaction

4 smoothness
Vehicle Mounted Road Profiler In-place after compaction
Bituminous material content Behind laydown machine before
1 Minimum of 5 samples per 10,000 square meter lot for each layer constructed
Aggregate Gradation All Sieves rolling

2 compaction
Minimum 5 cores per lot In-place after compaction
Bitumen Binder Course
3 thickness
Minimum 5 cores per lot In-place after compaction

4 smoothness
Vehicle Mounted Road Profiler In-place after compaction
Bituminous material content Behind laydown machine before
1 Minimum of 5 samples per 10,000 square meter lot for each layer constructed
Aggregate Gradation All Sieves rolling

2 compaction
Minimum 5 cores per lot In-place after compaction
Bitumen Wearing Course
3 thickness
Minimum 5 cores per lot In-place after compaction

4 smoothness
Vehicle Mounted Road Profiler In-place after compaction