Inexpensive tack coat can significantly improve the bond between pavement layers, improving pavement strength, reducing surface-course sliding and reducing top-down cracking Application of tack coat ...
To determine the application rate for an asphalt emulsion tack coat, it is absolutely necessary to start with the residual asphalt content – the amount of asphalt binder remaining on the pavement ...
Pacific Oaks Road in Goleta is one of many streets that have degraded so badly that they need to be dug out before they can even be repaved.