QUALITY CONTROL CONSIDERATIONS FOR FLEXIBLE PAVEMENTSBEFORE CONSTRUCTION

Abstract

Quality assurance is the planned and systematic actions necessary to provide adequate confidence that the work is
satisfying all the quality requirements. Thus, the quality control system includes all those planned actions that are necessary
to provide adequate confidence that the products or service will meet the requirements and is essentially a system of
planning, organizing. and controlling human skills to assure quality. The quality control involves the acceptance criteria
which includes the tests, frequency of testing and tolerance limits, inspections for critical examination of the work by selected
tests to determine its conformity to specifications and action taken to ensure quality. In the existing system, the quality
control tests are carried out at the three different levels; before, during and after construction. In the present paper some
effective ways to ensure quality control before the construction of flexible pavements is studied.