This software is written in Visual Basic language and it is a user-friendly tool to determine the optimum asphalt content in asphalt mixtures using the Marshall Mix design method. To learn more about the marshall mix design method, see: https://www.civil.iitb.ac.in/tvm/1100_LnTse/407_lnTse/plain/plain.html
The input file is a text file that has the labratury results for each sample as the follwoing:
3.0,1272.7,1275.0,740.7,1295,2.41 //Asphalt content(%), Dry weight, Wet weight, Stability, Flow for the 1st trial for the 1st sample 3.0,1270.0,1271.8,736.2,1345,2.3 //Asphalt content(%), Dry weight, Wet weight, Stability, Flow for the 2nd trial for the 1st sample 3.0,1269.5,1271.3,739.5,1440,2.4 //Asphalt content(%), Dry weight, Wet weight, Stability, Flow for the 3rd trial for the 1st sample
0,0,0,0,0,0 //separator to let the code know that here is the end of the first sample inputs
3.5,1274.7,1277.5,746.4,1502,2.7 //Asphalt content(%), Dry weight, Wet weight, Stability, Flow for the 1st trial for the 2nd sample 3.5,1276,1277.5,745.2,1475,2.7 //Asphalt content(%), Dry weight, Wet weight, Stability, Flow for the 2nd trial for the 2nd sample 3.5,1275.5,1276.7,749.2,1430,2.8 //Asphalt content(%), Dry weight, Wet weight, Stability, Flow for the 3rd trial for the 2nd sample
0,0,0,0,0,0 //separator to let the code know that here is the end of the first sample inputs
4,1281.2,1281.8,755.2,1703,3.0 //Asphalt content(%), Dry weight, Wet weight, Stability, Flow for the 3rd trial for the 3rd sample 4,1282.1,1283,755.4,1638,3.0 //Asphalt content(%), Dry weight, Wet weight, Stability, Flow for the 3rd trial for the 3rd sample 4,1285.4,1286.3,758.6,1600,3.3 //Asphalt content(%), Dry weight, Wet weight, Stability, Flow for the 3rd trial for the 3rd sample
0,0,0,0,0,0
4.5,1290.4,1290.7,765.1,1700,3.3 //Asphalt content(%), Dry weight, Wet weight, Stability, Flow for the 3rd trial for the 4th sample 4.5,1289.6,1290.3,766.1,1762,3.3 //Asphalt content(%), Dry weight, Wet weight, Stability, Flow for the 3rd trial for the 4th sample 4.5,1289.4,1290,765.6,1758,3.3 //Asphalt content(%), Dry weight, Wet weight, Stability, Flow for the 3rd trial for the 4th sample
0,0,0,0,0,0
5,1297.8,1298,771.5,1696,3.6 //Asphalt content(%), Dry weight, Wet weight, Stability, Flow for the 3rd trial for the 5th sample 5,1295.7,1296.3,769.6,1704,3.3 //Asphalt content(%), Dry weight, Wet weight, Stability, Flow for the 3rd trial for the 5th sample 5,1294.6,1295.1,771.0,1745,3.7 //Asphalt content(%), Dry weight, Wet weight, Stability, Flow for the 3rd trial for the 5th sample
0,0,0,0,0,0
5.5,1297.1,1297.1,770.3,1344,3.8 //Asphalt content(%), Dry weight, Wet weight, Stability, Flow for the 3rd trial for the 6th sample 5.5,1300.5,1300.8,771.3,1623,4.1 //Asphalt content(%), Dry weight, Wet weight, Stability, Flow for the 3rd trial for the 6th sample 5.5,1297.1,1297.5,767.6,1705,4.1 //Asphalt content(%), Dry weight, Wet weight, Stability, Flow for the 3rd trial for the 6th sample
0,0,0,0,0,0