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  2. Utility repair tag - Wikipedia

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    Utility repair tag for a patch in New York City made by Con Edison in 2014. Utility repair tag (also known as A-tag, asphalt tag and road cut medallion) is a plastic color-coded pavement marker embedded in the top surface of an asphalt utility cut restoration to identify the responsible party of that pavement repair or patch.

  3. Macadam - Wikipedia

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    A more durable road surface (modern mixed asphalt pavement), sometimes referred to in the U.S. as blacktop, was introduced in the 1920s. Instead of laying the stone and sand aggregates on the road and then spraying the top surface with binding material, in the asphalt paving method the aggregates are thoroughly mixed with the binding material ...

  4. Asphalt concrete - Wikipedia

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    Asphalt batch mix plant A machine laying asphalt concrete, fed from a dump truck. Asphalt concrete (commonly called asphalt, [1] blacktop, or pavement in North America, and tarmac or bitumen macadam in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland) is a composite material commonly used to surface roads, parking lots, airports, and the core of embankment dams. [2]

  5. Asphalt plant - Wikipedia

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    Asphalt plants for road construction Asphalt plant in Belgium The manufacture of coated roadstone demands the combination of a number of aggregates , sand and a filler (such as stone dust), in the correct proportions, heated, and finally coated with a binder, usually bitumen based or, in some cases tar , although tar was removed from BS4987 in ...

  6. Contact patch - Wikipedia

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    The contact patch is the portion of a vehicle's tire that is in actual contact with the road surface. It is commonly used in the discussion of pneumatic (i.e. pressurized) tires, where the term is used strictly to describe the portion of the tire's tread that touches the road surface.

  7. Pothole - Wikipedia

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    Placing the hot or cold patch material into a pothole; Compacting the patch with a vehicle, such as a truck; Achieving a crown on the compacted patch of between 3 and 6 mm; This method is widely used due to its simplicity and speed, especially as an expedient method when the material is placed under unfavorable conditions of water or temperature.

  8. Patch Code - Wikipedia

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    The actions taken for Patch 2, Patch 3, and Patch T can be configured in a document scanning application. Kodak's Capture Software assigns these default actions: [3] Patch 3 creates a new job and throws away the image with the patch; Patch 2 starts a new document and keeps the image; Patch T starts an attachment and throws away the image.

  9. Road surface - Wikipedia

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    Cold mix asphalt is often used on lower-volume rural roads, where hot mix asphalt would cool too much on the long trip from the asphalt plant to the construction site. [18] An asphalt concrete surface will generally be constructed for high-volume primary highways having an average annual daily traffic load greater than 1,200 vehicles per day. [19]