Balance Mix Design Data Validation

Balanced mix design (BMD) focuses on optimizing an asphalt mixture’s cracking and rutting performance rather than relying on traditional volumetric properties in its formulation. Over the past five years, Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) asphalt contractors have implemented BMD practices. However, no research has looked at the relationship between asphalt performance test results submitted by contractors and the real-world performance of asphalt mixtures.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $225,000.00
• Contract Numbers:

  KYSPR-26-689

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Kentucky Transportation Cabinet

  200 Mero Street
  Frankfort, KY  United States  40622
• Performing Organizations:

  University of Kentucky, Lexington

  Kentucky Transportation Center College of Engineering, 176 Raymond Building
  Lexington, KY  United States  40506-0281
• Principal Investigators:

  Hacker, David

  Beggs, Adrienne

  Ashurst, Kean

• Start Date: 20250701
• Expected Completion Date: 20270630
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Asphalt mixtures; Mix design; Pavement performance; Performance measurement; Validation
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Materials; Pavements;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01964183
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: University of Kentucky, Lexington
• Contract Numbers: KYSPR-26-689
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Aug 28 2025 11:32AM