ASTM D694-62

Specification for Crushed Stone, Crushed Slag, and Crushed Gravel for Water-Bound Macadam Base Courses (Withdrawn 1976)

General Information

• Status: Withdrawn
• Technical Committee: D04 - Road and Paving Materials

Standards Content (Sample)

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING AND MATERIALS
1916 Race ,~t .• Philadelphia 3, Pa.
Reprinted from Copyright,ed 1964 Book of ASTM Standard>, Part 10.
APPROVED AS
AMERICAN STANDARD A37.99-1964
BY AMERICAN STANDARDS ASSOCIATION
UDC 625.86
Standard' Specifications for
CRUSHED STONE. CRUSHED SLAG, AND CRUSHED
GRAVEL FOR DRY-BOUND OR WATER-BOUND
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MACADAM BASE COURSES
ASTM Designation: D 694- 62
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ADOPTED, 1962.
This Standard of the American Society for Testing and Materials is issued
under the fued designation D 694; the final number indicates the year of orig­
inal adoption as standard or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision.
Scope or crushed gravel conforming to the
requirements of these specifications.
L These specifications cover the
(b) Choking M aterial.-The choking
quality and gradmg of crushed stone,
material shall consist of the fine product
crushed slag, and crushed gravel suitable
resulting from crushing coarse aggre­
for use in the construction of dry-bound
gate or natural sand, and shall conform
or water-bound macadam base courses
to the requirements of these specifica­
of pavement.
tions.
General Characteristics
Physical Properties
2, (a) Coarse Aggregate.-Coarse ag­
3. (a) Grading.-Coarse aggregate shall
gregate shall consist of crushed stone,
be graded between the limits specified
crushed air-cooled blast-furnace slag,
and shall conform to the requirements
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· Under the standardization procedure of
prescribed in Table··r for size No. 1, 2,
the Society, these specifications are under the
or 3. Choking material shall be graded to
jurisdiction of the ASTM Committee D-4 on
Road and Paving Materials. conform to the requirements prescribed
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Prior to their present adoption as standard,
in Table I for size No. 10.
thest: specifications were published as ten.t'ative
(b) Unit Weight of Slag.-Crushed
from 1942 to 1944. They were published as
standard from 1944 to 1957, being revfsEid in
slag shall have a uiiit weight compacted
1949, 1954, and 1955. It was revised and ·reverted
of not less than 65 lb per cu ft.
to tentative in 1957, and published as a tei}.t3.tive
(c) Crushed Pieces in Gravel.-Gravel
from 1957 to 1962. ;
These specifications are in effect a revision
shall contain not le"s than 75 per cent
and consolidation of, and replace the fC>rmer
by weight of pieces having two or more
Tentative Specifications for Crushed SIJ:i.g for
fractured faces,
Water-Bound Base and Surface dourses
(D 488 - 38 T) and for Crushed Stoil:e;, for
(d) Soundness. - Coarse aggregate,
Water-Bound Base and Surface ciotirses
when subjected to five cycles of the
(D 489 - 40 T), which specifications were-. ac·
cordingly discontinued in 1942
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