411.03 Construction Requirements.
(N) Surface Test. The finished pavement shall conform to the following requirements when tested by the Engineer not more than 14 days following the placement of concrete:
(1) Straightedge the pavement surface at locations determined by the Engineer with a straightedge 12 feet long. When laying the straightedge on a finished pavement in a direction parallel with centerline or normal to centerline, the surface shall not vary more than 0.25 inch from the lower edge.
(2) The Engineer will determine the profile of the pavement surface using a profilograph according to Hawaii Test Method 10 and these provisions. The Engineer will take the profiles three feet from and parallel to each edge of pavement and at the approximate location of each longitudinal joint.
Make the request to the Engineer for profile testing at least 7 calendar days before testing the pavement surface. Clean and clear the area to be tested of obstructions. The Engineer will do the profilograph test up to two times per pavement surface test at no cost to the Contractor. Submit the total area to be tested at any time the request for testing is made for acceptance by the Engineer. The Engineer will do additional required profilograph testing at a cost to the Contractor at a rate of $750 per test per day.
During the initial paving operations, either startup or after a long shutdown, furnish, operate, and test the pavement surface using a California type profilograph when the concrete has cured sufficiently to allow testing.
Repair the membrane curing film damaged during the testing operations as specified by the Engineer. The Contractor and the Engineer will use the initial profile testing to aid and evaluate the paving methods and equipment. When an average profile index exceeds inches per mile is exceeded 15, suspend the paving operations. The Engineer will not allow the Contractor to resume until corrective action is taken. Test the subsequent paving operation according to the initial testing procedures.
Furnish paving equipment and employ methods that produce a riding surface having a profile index of 10 or less, except as provided herein. The Engineer may accept the initial profiles up to 15 with applicable price adjustments. The Engineer will not profile the pavements within 15 feet from each bridge approach slab or existing pavement that is joined by the new pavement. The Engineer will apply the surface requirement of Subsection 503.03(M)(3)(a) - Finishing Bridge Decks to these areas.
The Engineer will not require profile testing to the areas of pavement:
(1) on horizontal curves having a centerline radius of curve less than 1,000 feet and pavement within the superelevation transition of such curves.
(2) for exit ramp termini, ramps and connectors with steep grades and high rates of superelevation and short sections of roadway.
Reduce individual high points over 0.3 inch, as determined by measurements of the profilogram according to Hawaii Test Method 10, by grinding until such high points as shown by reruns of the profilograph do not exceed 0.3 inch.
After completing the grinding, do additional grinding as necessary to reduce the Profile Index to values specified in any 0.1 mile section along any line parallel with the pavement edge.
Do additional grinding as necessary to
extend the area ground in each lateral direction so the lateral
limits of grinding are at a constant offset from and paralle
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