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SMA owes its fast and wide-spreading growth to some unquestionable merits such as the following: • Long working lifetime (service life) • High resistance to deformation due to the high-coarse aggregate content and strong skeleton of interlocked aggregate particles • Increased fatigue life as a result of the higher content of binder • Increased in-service […]

Until the beginning of the 1980s, SMA was essentially known only in Germany. Its application in other European countries was limited in scope. Scandinavian states where studded tires used were the quickest to adopt the SMA concept; for example, in Sweden a few sections of roads had been paved with SMA by 1974 European Asphalt […]

For more than two decades, stone matrix asphalt (SMA), called stone mastic asphalt in Europe, has been taking over the global asphalt paving market at a remarkably high speed. Its fast-growing popularity has been surprising to many people. Although asphalt concrete may have appeared to be the indisputable leading choice for an asphalt layer, increasing […]

Krzysztof Btazejowski, a graduate of the Civil Engineering Department of the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, completed his PhD dissertation at the Kielce Technical University, Poland. Since 1992 he has been working as a research engineer for the Road and Bridge Research Institute in Warsaw, Poland, and then in research departments of various companies that […]

Many years have passed since the beginning of stone matrix asphalt’s (SMA’s) world­wide success. Therefore now the right moment has come to review all accessible information. Through this new book I have tried to assemble, in an organized manner, a cer­tain body of knowledge obtained from a vast number of publications the world over, thus […]