2025 AACP Airfield Laboratory Technician Course

NEW ALT Course - Instruction days: 10/17 to 10/19 (3.0 days) Exam day: 10/20 (0.5 day)

This course consists of interactive lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on training of fundamental aggregate and asphalt mixture tests used during asphalt mixture production. The course will be split between classroom lectures and hands-on work using the testing equipment in the laboratory. The course will provide engineers, technicians and testing personnel with an understanding of the sampling and testing requirements associated with airfield asphalt mixture production and construction. Approximately 1 1/2 days will be spent in the classroom and 1 1/2 days will be spent in the laboratory. A brief outline of the course follows.

• Overview of Course
• Random Sampling
• Sampling Aggregates and Reducing to Testing Size
• Aggregate Properties
• Sampling Paving Mixtures and Reducing to Testing Size
• Volumetric Analysis of Asphalt Mixtures
• Marshall and Superpave Mix Design
• Moisture Susceptibility Testing
• AC Content and Gradation Determination
• Sampling and Testing for In-Place Density
• UFGS 32 12 15.13 Specification Review

• Fine Aggregate Properties (Fine Aggregate Angularity, Sand Equivalent, Soundness, Clay Lumps and Friable Particles, Gradation)
• Coarse Aggregate Properties (L.A. Abrasion, Soundness, Clay Lumps and Friable Particles, Flat and Elongated Particles, Gradation)
• Mixing and Compacting Asphalt Samples
• Maximum and Bulk Specific Gravity
• Mixture Moisture Susceptibility
• Marshall Stability/Flow
• Asphalt Extraction
• Moisture Content of Asphalt Mixtures

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