How many yards are in 10168 tons of asphalt?

Answer 1

Unfortunately this depends on many things.

An asphaltic highway will vary in construction depending on countless factors.

Firth you will need to design your highway makeup.

for a surface course and binder I'd say 100mm is about normal

the base (if asphaltic and not another unbound or bound material) about 400mm (depending on foundation design)

the subbase will need to be design but would normally not be asphaltic

So say you have 0.5m of asphaltic material depth. Multiply this by the width of the width of the road to give you an area .

0.5 x width of road

As a very very loose guide of the density of asphalt take (it vary greatly depending on aggregate, penetration etc.)

2200kg/m3

10168000kg divided by density will give you the volume

10168000/2200 = 4622 m3

4622 m3 / (0.5m x width of road m) = very approximate length of road

i.e 4622m3 /(0.5 x 7m)= 1.3km for a single carriageway two lane road at 7m width