The artificial stone material has: - 

• High strength

• High resistance to deformation

• High durability against water saturation and freeze-thaw cycles 

• Elastic modulus is equal to or more than 12000 MPa 

It is compatible with a wide spectrum of locally available mineral material such as stone crushing waste, weak stone materials, gravel-crushed stone-sand mixes, various types of soils, mining and metallurgical industry waste, construction material crushing waste. 

• Just after compaction of the “ANT” Stone Road, monolithic stone slab can carry the loads of all traffic including freight traffic. 

• Stone Road doesn’t require any care or restriction on movement of the traffic.

• Traffic can start moving over Stone Road after compaction. 

• So, traffic can be allowed on one half of the road while work is done in another half. 

• And within 2 to 8 hours of compaction traffic can be shifted to the compacted layer and work can be taken up in remaining half

• Minimal or no curing is needed after final compaction of “ANT” Stone Roads. 

• This is very beneficial is remote areas as arranging water for curing from far-off sources of water becomes very expensive as well as time consuming at such places. 

• The cost of road construction is drastically reduced  

• This reduction occurs due to: - 

  1. use of locally available low-cost mineral materials.

  2. reduction of thickness of road pavement.

  3. reduction of volumes of materials to be handled 

  4. reduction of the time of construction works

• Cost of construction gets reduced by more than 30% as compared to the conventional technologies