Halfway through 1996, six different wearing courses were casted over a length of 3 km on the N255 Edingeri-Ninovc at Ilcrnc and Gaimaarden. 4 Different wearing courses each 4 cm thick, were casted on a continuously reinforced concrete pavement. In addition to the conventional wearing courses SMA 0/14 and ZOAB...
Environmental Impact of Concrete and Asphalt Pavements
As part of a Nordic R & D project on sustainable concrete technology initiated by the Nordic cement industry, a study has been carried out by VTT, the Technical Research Centre of Finland, to assess the environmental impact of concrete and asphalt pavements. The assessment is based on the estimation...
Concrete Pavements Under Container Stackings
Contact pressures produced by container stackings in concrete pavements are very high. Theoretically, slab stresses widely overcome the flexural strength of concrete. However, in real pavements functional conditions are not affected as it is observed. Therefore, what is really happening should be analyzed. A full-scale test was made in summer...
Computational Modelling in the Theory of Concrete Pavements
The jointed concrete pavement is analysed as a system of interacting rectangular slabs transferring wheel loads into an elastic layered subgrade. The finite element plate analysis is combined with the assumption of a linear contact stress variation over triangular elements of the contact region division. The linking forces are introduced...
The State of Temperature and Shrinkage Stress in CRCP in Curve Areas
In the literature of speciality there are studies about the calculus and behavior of continuously reinforced concrete pavements for alignment areas. In our paper we present some aspects of temperature variation and shrinkage stress in curve areas, taking also into account friction, which is determined experimentally in the laboratory. The...
Improvement of the Temperature-Shrinkage Crack Resistance in the Construction of Concrete Road Pavements
Measures of increasing the crack-and frost resistance of a cement concrete pavement are presented in the paper: -use of control joints in the fresh concrete, only placed in the morning time; - increase by20% of the amount of plasticizer, mixing duration and compaction time of concrete mix.
Road Cement Concrete with Lime Aggregate
The use of local aggregates of limestone nature for the producing of road cement concrete leads to obtaining numerous technical - economic advantages. Romania owns great limestone resources (over 3 milliards tons with an ensurance degree up to 999 years) smoothly spread over the entire surface of the country. In...
Progress in Concrete Road Materials and in the Construction Process
An industrial pavement with high durabilily iequiieiiieiils iiiade with "semi-continuous concrctc", high performance concrete with low cost materials and equipment is described.
Whole Life Costing
is important to have the knowledge about the connections between different costs and different surface characteristics of a pavement. The costs are for the road, traffic safety, road user and environment etc. The surface characteristics are things like friction, micro- and macro structure, iuts, evenness, cracks, sloping and drainage etc....
The Monselice Experimental Road a Performance Analysis After 5 Years Service
The continuously reitifoteed concrete road executed in Monselice (Padua, Italy) is mainly devoted to heavy traffic. During construction works, the road had been fitted with suitably devised equipment to monitor the operating performance over a sufficiently long time period. The present paper is aimed at gathering significant data recorded in...
Roundabouts with Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavements
Roundabouts have already been used in Belgium for several years to regulate traffic at major road intersections. The surfaces at roundabouts are particularly subject to tangential stresses that result from centrifugal forces and from the overload on the outside wheels by the more or less significant tilting of the vehicles...
A New Laboratory Test to Evaluate the Shear Resistance at the Interface of Thin Bonded Overlays
The effectiveness of thin bonded overlays depends upon the adhesion level at the interface with the existing concrete pavement. It appears that shrinkage, particularly at the very early ages (18-24 hours), is mainly responsible for delamination, i.e. separation between old pavement and overlay. The present paper discusses the results of...