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| Material Specifications Series |
Description |
| 4000 Series |
Material specifications for jiggle bar tiles, pavement markers, traffic buttons, flexible delineators and object marker posts, fiberglass sign supports, steel strand, mechanical couplers, cementitious materials, concrete admixtures, and concrete curing materials. These material specifications are generally referenced in construction specifications contained in contracts or requisitions. |
| 6000 Series |
Material specifications and quality program requirements for miscellaneous construction materials including adhesives, sealants, construction fabrics and textiles, lime, compost, and deicing chemicals. |
| 7000 Series |
Material specifications for highway sign blanks, sign hardware, and metal beam guard fence components. Qualification procedures for reinforcing steel mills, epoxy coating applicators for reinforcing steel, laboratories performing welding procedure qualification testing, and for multi-project or project-specific precast concrete fabrication plants. |
| 8000 Series |
Material specifications for paints (maintenance, steel, concrete, anti-graffiti, epoxy powder), pavement markings (traffic paint, thermoplastic, cold and hot tape, glass beads), sign materials (sign face, fiberglass substrate, roll-up, internally illuminated, identification decals), license plate face materials and validation stickers, windshield validations stickers, delineators and object markers, glare screen, flagger paddles, and
concrete surface treatment. |
| 9000 Series |
Material specifications for asphaltic concrete patching materials and fiber additives for bitumious mixtures used primarily for maintenance. |
| 10000 Series |
Guidelines for miscellaneous materials that may be referenced in construction specifications contained in contracts or requisitions. |
| 11000 Series |
Guidelines for evaluating and using nonhazardous recyclable materials and electrical, illumination, and traffic signal materials and equipment that may be referenced in construction specifications contained in contracts or requisitions. |
