ABSTRACT
Thin chipseal (or sprayed seal) surfaces are used in many countries on low volume roads given their relatively low cost when compared to asphalt surfaces. The need to better understand these surfaces and their performance result in an increasing interest to test these surfaces in laboratory conditions. Literature on the construction and testing of surface in the laboratory is significantly lacking. This paper documents the development toward the ability to construct and test various characteristics of chipseal surfaces in the laboratory. In particular, it demonstrates the most effective manner to obtain an evenly spread bitumen layer on a base course sample.
