National foreword

This British Standard is the UK implementation of EN 12697‑34:2020. It supersedes BS EN 12697‑34:2012, which is withdrawn.

The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee B/510/1, Asphalt products.

A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to its secretary.

This publication does not purport to include all the necessary provisions of a contract. Users are responsible for its correct application.

Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunity from legal obligations.

This British Standard was published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 31 March 2020.

This European Standard was approved by CEN on 18 November 2019.

CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre or to any CEN member.

This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation under the responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the same status as the official versions.

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European foreword

This document (EN 12697‑34:2020) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 227 “Road materials”, the secretariat of which is held by BSI.

This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by August 2020, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by August 2020.

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CEN shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

This document supersedes EN 12697‑34:2012.

The following is a list of significant technical changes since the previous edition:

the title no longer makes the method exclusively for hot mix asphalt;
[ge] editorial update according to current standard template;
[Clause 2] titles for test methods EN 12697‑series adjusted, reference EN ISO 7500‑1:2018, Metallic materials — Verification of static uniaxial testing machines — Part 1: Tension/compression testing machines — Verification and calibration of the force-measuring system (ISO 7500 1:2018) replaced by: EN ISO 7500‑1:2018, Metallic materials — Calibration and verification of static uniaxial testing machines — Part 1: Tension/compression testing machines — Calibration and verification of the force-measuring system (ISO 7500‑1:2018);
[6.1.1 and 6.2.4] NOTEs modified according to ISO/IEC Directives – Part 2:2016, 24.5;
[7.1] correction of Formula (1). Factor v realigned as exponent;
[Bibliography] EN 12697‑35 deleted. Referred to in Clause 2 Normative references.

A list of all parts in the EN 12697 series can be found on the CEN website.

According to the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organisations of the following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

1 Scope

This document specifies a test method for determining the stability, flow and the Marshall quotient values of specimens of bituminous mixtures mixed according to EN 12697‑35 and prepared using the impact compactor method of test EN 12697‑30. It is limited to dense graded asphalt concrete and hot rolled asphalt.

2 Normative references

3 Terms and definitions

4 Principle

5 Apparatus

5.1

5.2

5.3

5.4

5.5

5.6

5.7

6 Procedure

6.1 Specimen preparation

6.2 Test procedure

7 Expression of results

7.1

7.2

7.3

7.4

8 Test report

9 Precision

Bibliography

BS EN 12697-34:2020

Bituminous mixtures. Test methods - Marshall test

Current, Under Review

Published:

31 Mar 2020