For more than 70 years, "MS-4" has served the asphalt industry as its primary reference manual. This new, expanded edition showcases the advances in asphalt technology, covering such topics as superpave courses, asphalt binder, quality control, and rehabilitation of concrete pavements with HMA.
This book is thorough. If you're interested in hot mix asphalt (sounds like an album title) then this is the place to start.
And why should you be interested if you're not the sort of person who's going to make a batch of hot mix asphalt? Because we're surrounded by it. We walk on it, drive on it, live with it. It's an unremarked detail of our day-to-day routines yet it underpins what we do--and I mean almost all that we do--in fundamental ways.