Table of Contents

Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Definition.........................................................................................................................................1
Aggregate impact Value (AIV):...................................................................................................1
Significance.....................................................................................................................................1
Purpose............................................................................................................................................1
Standard reference...........................................................................................................................2
Equipments and Materials...............................................................................................................2
Procedure.........................................................................................................................................2
Results..............................................................................................................................................3
Recorded Data.............................................................................................................................3
Calculation...................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................3
Discussion........................................................................................................................................3
Appendix..........................................................................................................................................3

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Introduction
The property of a material to resist impact is known as toughness. Due to movement of vehicles
on the road, the aggregates are been subjected to impact resulting in their breaking down into
smaller pieces. The aggregates should therefore have sufficient toughness to resist their
disintegration due to impact. This characteristic is been measured by impact value test. The
aggregate impact value is a measure of resistance to sudden impact or shock, which may differ
from its resistance to gradually applied compressive load.

The standard amount of impact is been produced by a known weight, that is, a steel cylinder,
falling a set height, a prescribed number of times, onto an amount of aggregate of standard size
and weight retained in a mould. Aggregate Impact Values, (AIV’s), below 10 are been regarded
as strong, and AIV’s above 35 would normally be regarded as too weak for use in road surfaces.
Aggregate Impact Values and Aggregate Crushing Values are often numerically very similar, and
indicate similar aggregate strength properties. Classification of aggregates using Aggregate
Impact Value is as given below:

Aggregate Impact Value Classification:

<10% Exceptionally Strong

10 – 20% Strong

20-30%. Satisfactory for road surfacing

>35%. Weak for road surfacing

Definition
Aggregate impact Value (AIV):
Aggregate Impact Value (AIV) is the percentage of fines produced from the aggregate sample
after subjecting it to a standard amount of impact.

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Significance
The aggregate impact value gives a relative measure of the toughness or the resistance of
aggregate sudden shock or impact is not proportional to the resistance to a slowly applied
compressive load.

Purpose
The purpose of the test is to determine the Aggregate impact value to achieve a clear idea
regarding the behavior of aggregate when it is been subjected to impact load and to assess the
suitability in road construction based on impact value.

Standard reference
BS- 812-112

Equipments and Materials

1. Sieves

2. Weight Machine

3. Impact testing Machine

4. Coarse aggregate from various sources

5. Tamping rod

Procedure
1. The sample material, which were passing through the No. 15 sieve and that retained on
No. 10 sieve, were collected.

2. The cylindrical mould was measure and it weight recorded as W1.

3. The cylindrical mould was then filled in three layers and each layer was tamper with 25
blows using the tamping rod. Each blow was given by allowing the Tamping rod to fall
freely from a height of about 50mm above the Surface of the Aggregate, evenly
distributed over the surface.

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 4. After the third layer, the excess Aggregate was struck off using the Tamping rod as a
straight edge.

5. The net mass of Aggregate was then measure and recorded as W2.

6. The steel cup (which is part of the test machine) having diameter of 102 mm and depth of
50mm was fixed firmly in position on the base of the machine.

7. The height of the hammer was adjusted so that its lower face is 380mm above the upper
surface of the Aggregate and the allow it to fall freely To the Aggregate.

8. The Aggregate was subjected to a total of 15 such blows, each being delivered at an
interval of not less than one second.

9. The crushed Aggregate was then removed and passed through a sieve size of 2.5mm.

10. The fraction passing the sieve size 2.5mm was measured and the weight was recorded as
B. The weighed of the fraction retained was also measured and the weight recorded as C.

Results

Recorded Data
Required data Recorded data
Weight of Cylindrical mould, W1 402 gm
Weight of mould with aggregate 720 gm
weight of aggregate, W2 318 gm
The weight of fraction passing through 2.5 59.5 gm
mm sieve, B
Aggregate impact value (%) 18.71

Calculation
Formula for calculating aggregate impact value

Mass of surface dry sample (gm)

= * 100%
fraction passing the sieve for separating fines ,(gm)

59.5
= * 100%
318

= 18.71 %

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Conclusion
At the end of the experiment, The Aggregate impact value (AIV) of the dry Aggregate was been
obtained to be 18.71%. This value is Less than 20%, which means the gravel is strong.

Discussion
According to the aggregate impact value classification was got the result (18.71%) as strong
gravel. As per BS 812-112 standard our calculated value is less than 30% and thus this material
can be recommended for road construction.
For this experiment, we got the material as sieved and in surface dry condition which was done
close to prefect by our lab instructors. If we were allowed to this by our own, we might be done
some error and as a consequence we would not get the same value.

Appendix
1. Pictures clicked during the experiment.

2. Data sheets of each group members.

Fig1: impact test machine

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Fig 2: picture of sample aggregate and temping rod