Asphalt Construction for Pavements and Highways - Clifford Richardson

Excerpt from Asphalt Construction for Pavements and Highways: A Pocketbook for Engineers, Contractors and Inspectors
The increase in recent years in the amount of sheet asphalt pavement which is being laid in our cities and the extent of the asphaltic concrete and asphaltic broken stone surfaces which are being constructed on our country highways to resist the destructive action of motor ve hicles, has created a demand for highway engineers, con tractors, and inspectors, who are skilled in this work, far in excess of the supply. The result has been that many have entered these fields who do not realize the im portance of careful attention to details which is necessary to insure complete success in this line of work. With a view to supplying the necessary information in regard to these details to the persons who have been mentioned, this pocket-book has been prepared with the hope that it will do something toward insuring better work in the future than has been done in some cases during recent years by inexperienced contractors and engineers, and supervised by inexperienced inspectors. Its form has been selected in order that it may be readily carried in the coat pocket, for reference on all occasions, something that cannot well be done with a larger book with stiff covers.
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