The highest expression of engineering lies in those works which challenge nature and rise through a modified environment as a proof of human genius and perseverance. Ushuaia's new international is one of those titanic works, located in the Andean geography, next to the Beagle Channel, in the most southern city...
Standard Designs for Concrete Roads
A manual on standard pavement design has recently been presented in The Netherlands. This manual deals with various types of roads constructed in plain concrete, composed as Publication no. 120 under the auspices of CROW (CROW = Centre for Research and Contract Standardization in Civil and Traffic Engineering). The manual...
Numerical Investigation on Deformations and Stresses in Concrete Highway Pavements
In this paper, results of numerical simulations of the deformation behaviour of concrete highway pavements under hygral and thermal gradients are presented. It is shown that.high temperature gradients, which could be caused by a temperature shock may lead to thermal cracking at the surface of the concrete. Further shrinkage cracking...
Use of Fast Track Concrete Paving for Restoration Work
Many roads in Belgium, both main and secondary, are in need of modernisation or repairs. The surface area of old concrete pavements that are thus concerned on an annual basis is estimated at approximately half a million m2 . The inconvenience to the user caused by this type of work...
Method to Establish the Porosity – Depth Distribution of Porous Concrete Pavements Using Cylindrical 100 Cml Cores Samples
The paper deals with a low cost method to establish the porosity - depth distribution in porous concrete pavement using cylindrical 100cm cores samples. The outcome is a graph representing the porosity in function of the depth below the surface. The method is non destructive with regard to the core...
Sand-Concrete Pavements Gainful Use of Local Materials
To complete the road between La Teste town and the famous , the Gironde Regional Council use the knowledge and experience requied during the national research and development project on sand concrete named SABLOCRETE to build a sand concrete slab pavement structure along 3,5 kilometres. The owners and engineers of...
Analysis of the Response of Concrete Pavement Slabs Jointed by Dowel Bars
The present paper aims to contribute to the study of the structural response of concrete slabs jointed by dowel bars in pavements. As is known, a common construction technique of pavements is this one that uses concrete slabs interconnected each other in both directions by equidistant dowel steel bars. A...
Hydraulic Concrete Roadways on the Autopista Del Mediterraneo Appraisal and Management
This paper addresses the appraisal and management procedure used for more than 20 years by a toll motorway concessionaire, covering a total of 300 kilometres of concrete dual carriageway built between 1970 and 1985. The system of analysis, surveys and experiments carried out during this period was based on auscultations...
The Importance of Continuous Slab Support and Load Transfer at Joints in the Performance of Thin Concrete Overlays
Studies on the structural performance of existing Portland cement concrete roads in South Africa (1) have shown that the traffic utilizing these roads is not the pnme initiator of structural failures. Factors such as construction, environment and slab support conditions are predominant in initiating structural failures. However, it is also...
Jointed Concrete Pavement Structural Evaluation Overlays Design
In connection with a rehabilitation project, the long-term performances of 15km existing old jointed pavement were comprehensively surveyed. The collected data included visual conditions, roughness measurements, core tests, and FWD defleLtions. By analyzing the FWD measurements, the in situ struchiral moduli were backcalculated, and then, the fatigue damage of existing...
Requirements for the Application of Surface-Retarders in Whisper-Concrete Road-Projects
Although the quality of the surface-deactivator is very important, the surface-deactivator will only react to the quality of the concrete onto which the surfcedeactivator is applied to. Therefore the surfacedeactivator will not be able to compensate for segregations, unsuitable concrete mix-designs or mistakes in application, etc. It is always recommended...
High-Quality Concrete with Recycled Aggregates
New laboratory and field investigations showed that it is possible to achieve durable concrete by using recycled aggregate above 4 mm from old pavements with cracks but no frost- or concrete structure deterioration. The concrete compressive and tensile strengths were slightly higher and the cracking sensitivity was slightly lower for...