CEG552

HIGHWAY & TRAFFIC ENGINEERING

AGGREGATE IMPACT TEST

OBJECTIVES
The objective of this study is to assess the
resistance of an aggregate to mechanical
degradation by the Aggregate Impact Test.
PROCEDURES
The apparatus consists of a steel test
mould with a falling hammer. The
hammer slides freely between vertical
guides so arranged that the lower part of
the hammer is above and concentric with
the mould.

INTRODUCTION
When a road aggregate has been manufacture to a specified grading it is
stockpiled, loaded into trucks, transported, tipped, spread and compacted. If the
aggregate is weak, some degradation may take place and result in a change in
grading and the production of excessive and undesirable fines. Thus, an
aggregate complying with a specification at the quarry may fail to do so when it
is in the pavement. Granular base layers and surfacings are subjected to
repeated loadings from truck tyres and the stress at the contact points of
aggregate particles can be quite high. These crushing tests can reveal
aggregate properties subject to mechanical degradation of this form.

DISCUSSION

1.
Prepare the material that is the
aggregate passing a 12.70mm sieve and
retained on a 9.52mm sieve. It shall be
clean and dry (wash if necessary) but it
must not be dried for longer than 4 hours
not at a temperature higher than 110 C
otherwise certain aggregates may be
damaged.
2.
Place the whole of the test sample
(mass A) in the steel mould into three
layers and compact the sample by a single
tamping of 25 strokes of the tamping rod.
3.
Deliver 15 blows of the hammer
dropping 381mm on the test sample, each
should be delivered at an interval not less
than one second.
4.
Sieve the crushed aggregate over a
2.36mm sieve.
5.
Weigh the fraction passing 2.36mm
to the nearest 0.1 g (mass B).
6.
Weigh the fraction retained on the
sieve (mass C). If the {A-(B+C)} > 1gram,
the result shall be discarded and a fresh
test made.
RESULT
Mass A = 281.4g
Mass B= 68.9g
Mass C= 211.6g
AIV=

The size of aggregates that used is 10mm with total weight of 2.5kg. The
Aggregate Impact Value is 24.48 % which is the recommended values is
between 20-30% . The classification is satisfactory for road surfacing.

Specified limits of percent aggregate impact value for different type of road
construction by Indian Road Congress is given for Aggregate Impact Value
not mora than 30 is bituminous surface dressing, penetration madacam,

x 100 %

68.9
281.4

x 100 % = 24.48 %

REFERENCE
1.

CONCLUSION

B
A

B+C= 280.5g
A-(B+C)= 281.4-280.5
=0.9 < 1g

2.

Ref. Standard Procedure:

Arahan Teknik (Jalan) 5/85
SS (1974). SS73:1974
Specification for methods for
sampling and testing of
mineral aggregates, sand
and fillers- Determination of
aggregate impact value,
aggregate crushing value
and ten percent fines value.
Singapore Standard,
Singapore.