ECOPAVE is a system of laying concrete through a modified bituminous paver, inducing transverse cracks into the concrete, and overlaying with a thin bituminous surfacing. The system has been developed through a BRITE project with partners in the UK and Denmark. It is coiisideied to provide economic benefits over the...
Continuously Reinforced Concrete on Bridges
As it is well known, in Belgium since the stast of the 1970s, continuously reinforced concrete has to a large extent been used as concrete pavement for motorways. On the bridges, asphalt was sometimes applied, which made it necessary to use expensive anchorages on both sides of the bridges to...
Overlaying and Behavior of Lorient-Lann Bihone Main Runway with Continuously Reinforced Concrete (CRC)
The main runway of Lorient-Lann Bihoud airport was overlayed with continuously reinforced concrete in 1989. This operation is examplary because from the technical viewpoint it is still today the only one in Europe. This runway is used now for eight years by civil and military traffic. The cracking development is...
New Composite Cement for High Early Strength Concrete
Even small repairs on roads and runways are time consuming and lead to long time obstructions. Normal cement type mortars and concretes do exhibit iallier long hardening times and are therefore, not suitable for fast track repair. Non cementitious repair materials like resin types have other disadvantages as being only...
Surface Characteristics of Two Recently Constructed Trunk Roads in the UK
In an effort to tackle road traffic noise, research into quieter road surfaces has included trials of a new type of concrete surfacing called exposed aggregate concrete, which has been used in a number of other European countries. Two trials of exposed aggregate concrete have been constructed in the UK;...
The Use of Crushed Concrete Aggregate in Concrete for An Industrial Road at Ouffet
In standard specifications 300 of 1994 (CCT 300) issued by the Ministry of the Walloon Region, permission is granted in the chapter dealing with cement concrete surfaces of roads belonging to roads with light traffic, to replace a maximum of 50 % of the granulates with crushed stones. The aim...
Concrete Pavements of the Macau International Airport
This paper describes design solutions of the concrete pavements from Macau International Airport, including runway, taxiways and apron. Aspects about the execution and results from quality control are also presented, within the scope of activities made by LECM (Macau Civil Engineering Laboratory) in this project, as a quality assurance agent...
Materials Mix Design and Quality Control
A system for assessing the materials used for the construction of a concrete road is presented. The materials constituting the three layers of the pavement -ely stabilised granular mix, cement-bound mix, concrete and porous concrete for the road shoulders- were accurately selected and subjected to thorough controls during construction. The...
Evaluation of Concrete Pavements on the Restauration with Thin Aspahit Layers
To improve the surface quality or the water drainage and the service life of a mediocre damaged concrete pavement, this pavement can be overlaid with a 4 to 6 cm thick asphalt layer. The status of the concrete pavement and of the joints with respect to potential reflection cracks needs...
Development of a Test to Compare Anti-Reflective Cracking Treatments
In Spain, like in other European countries, during the last twenty years roads constructed with cement bound base layers have had many maintenance problems due to reflective cracking. It is impossible to know the effectiveness of the new treatments which are applied as anti-reflective cracking measures. Therefore a laboratory test...
Reconstruction of a Section of the A9 Motorway Using Recycled Aggregate Concrete
In Germany the use of concrete with aggregates obtained from crushed concrete (RC aggregate) has been quite limited in comparison to other countries such as the USA and Austria. This situation is caused mainly by the lack of appropriate regulations for this kind of application. For this reason, the award...
Slip Formed MaIa Slotted Gutter
"MAIA" is a slotted driveable gutter used for the drainage of motorways and airports. T.S.S. adapted the SATUJO slotted gutter method to be realized on a slipform paver. The new concept is based on the insertion of an air inflated reusable flexible tube on a slipform paver which enables the...