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and to secure the height position of the individual slabs. They must be positioned in the middle of the slab thickness so that they do not prevent longitudinal motion of the slabs. In modern concrete pavement construction the concrete is poured over the entire cross section width using slip form...

Belgium is made up of 3 regions: the Region of Flanders, the Walloon Region and the Brussels Capital Region. Managing and maintaining the national trunk roads is a regional matter and therefore also carried out in Belgium by three different administrative authorities. Each of these administrative authorities has drawn up...

The need for constructing road pavements characterised by controllable technical performances, high durability and reduced construction and maintenance costs, led to the development of design criteria and procedures for the technical and economic appraisal of the pavements based on Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA). New materials, new technologies and innovating...

This paper presents a new generation of cementitious material devoted to pavement bedding layer construction and named MACES. This material contains a high volume of water in order to be very fluid and selfcompacting. It has also been designed in such a way that the free water in excess rapidly...

Ultra-thin whitetopping is a repair method using concrete for asphalt pavement, whose primary characteristic is to allow the existing asphalt pavement and concrete to perform monolithically as a composite section. The existing asphalt concrete is normally milled to achieve such a bond, but milling can reportedly cause debonding of asphalt...

Potentially useful improvements in the mechanical behaviour of concrete can be achieved by incorporating fibers in the concrete matrix while it is being poured. In this study an analytical investigation was performed using a finite element analysis where various materials and geometrical parameters were included in different sets of numerical...

In 1998, the Chilean private companies exploiting rock deposits for the aggregate production necessary in the construction industry, promoted the creation of the multilateral Commission with the purpose of solving problems of supply and demand unbalance, uncontrolled environmental impacts and serious legal gaps and/or superpositions. This Commission has been in...

In the Netherlands Rijkswaterstaat is the authority in charge among others of the construction of highways. The department Noord Holland of Rijkswaterstaat has chosen a continuously reinforced concrete roadbase for the construction of the 9 km long new highway section between the cities of Haarlem and Hoofddorp. This choise was...

In the course of utilization the utility value and condition of concrete pavements decreases due to traffic and environmental burden. Their utility value is judged by edge/corner demolitions, settlements, horizontal movements and the overall condition. In case of damage individual slabs must be replaced. The aim of this study is...

New structural design software is presented that deals with flexible, composite and rigid structures. The pavement design is based on a trial-and-error process involving the use of the linear elastic multilayer model for flexible and composite pavements (Burmister's theory) and the strength of materials (Pasternak’s theory) for the rigid ones.

Recycling techniques to take profit of materials from existing pavements are being increasingly used, due to different technical, economical and ecological reasons. Therefore, the Technical Committee C7/8 on Pavements of PIARC (World Road Association) has prepared three guidelines dealing respectively with hot recycling in plant of bituminous mixt ures cold...

High concrete pavement performance requires excellent concrete quality. One imp ortant factor guaranteeing this high quality is the proper selection of qualified cement. The use of blended cements is increasing more and more. Especially the market share of Portland composite cements (cement type CEM II according to EN 197-1) shows...