This paper assesses the condition of a concrete motorway pavement in the Paris region to be widened from three to four lanes from the outside. The sigilificant drainage requirements of the existing pavement led to the provision of a new porous pavement. The design criteria applied for the typical crosssection...
Experience with Rolled Concrete For Traffic Areas in the Federal Republic of Germany
Traffic areas are being executed to an increasing degree with roller compacted concrete. This concerns a concrete which is transported with earth-moving equipment, installed and compacted. To gather experience on concrete technology, test fields were laid. Furthermore, within the framework of a quality assurance program, comprehensive tests were performed on...
New Concrete Pavement Structures in the Revision of the French Catalogue of New Pavements and in the Technical Guide of Overlays
The documents for conception and design of new and reinforcement works on the French national road network were updated in 1988to take into account new pavement designs and techniques: dowelled slabs, continuously reinforced concrete, thick slabs on porous course, cement processed materials subbases. The article explains: - the development of...
Setting New Standards in the Construction of Flight Operation Areas in MUC 2
The construction of the International Airport MUC 2 and especiallyof the flight operation areas in -for road designers- gigantic dimensions and short time-limit was a unique chance for the ex-perts to search for and find newstandards for tech-nique, economy and quality by an innovative fur-ther development of proven equipment and...
Reuse of Crushed Concrete as a Road Base Material
Aggregates from crushed road concrete were tried in 7 test sections, and 84 samples from some lOcrushing plants were :ested in the laboratory. lt has been shown that aggregates suitable for re-use in sub-Jases or road bases can be produced not only in fixed plants butalso by small mobile crushers,...
High Strength Concrete For Highway Pavements Ano Bridge Decks
An accelerated road-wear simulator employed by Norcem for experimental testing of abrasion resistance of highway concrete pavements subjected to heavy traffic by studded tyres was set up at Slemmestad, Norway in 1985. By increasing concrete strength from 50 up to 120 MPa, the abrasion was reduced by roughly 60-70 %....
Design Charts For Small Element Precast Concrete Slab Pavements Using a Combined Finite Element Westergaard Approach
Small element precast concrete slab pavements through their use in urban areas where vehicular over-run is predominant have suffered severe failures which incurred a substantial public expenditure for their maintenance in the UK. This has created a need for the development of a rational design method that would lead to...
Dynamic Deflection Measurement on Rigid Payements Using the Falling Weight Deflectometer
Deflection caused by a load is an important measure for the bearing capacity of rigid pavements, too. For this reason the deflection on a variety of sections with different constructions has been measured in the Federal Republic of Germany. For these measurements the «Falling Weight Deflectometen> was used, developed by...
Very Thin Surfacings For Improving Skid Resistance of Concrete Pavements
This paper describes work on the skid resistance properties of some fine aggregates available in Indiana, as an attempt to improve the driving safety characteristics of concrete pavements. In this work the British Polishing Machine and the Portable Skid-Resistance Tester were used for laboratory evaluation of some mortar mixes. Aggregates...
An Acquisition System For Monitoring Polyfunctional Composite Pavements PCP
The criteria are presented for the choice of the proper instruments to detect strains/ stresses and temperatures on a stretch of composite concrete motorway paving. The following are described: project, implementation and assembly of the entire acquisition system broken down in two parts. The first is designed for controlling low...
Roller Compacted Concrete RCC Pavements For Motorways and Main Highways the Spanish Practice
First applications of roller compacted concrete (RCC) pavements on main highways took place in Spain in 1984. Since this year, RCC pavements have been employed in a large variety of works, their total surface exceeding 1.600.000 m2 by the end of 1989. Up to now, their behaviour has been very...
Concrete Structures Made of One Piece Lean Concrete Slabs French Experiments and Pavement Design – Future Developments
France has an extended experience in hydraulic binder treated materials: in semi-rigid structures, in cement concrete thick slabs, in lean concrete for concrete pavement subbase layers. It has permit-ted to establish a new and very competitive struc-ture: the lean concrete thick slab on a drainingcourse with or without tranverse joints.A...