In this paper, portland cement concretes and concretes with blast furnace slag cement were studied to determine the parameters for strength and chloride permeability under different curing procedures. For this purpose, four concrete mixtures were made at two different water cement ratios of 0.45 and 0.65 with cement contents of...
High-Volume Fly Ash Concrete for Concrete Pavements
This paper presents the data on the properties of fresh and hardened concrete made with replacement of the Portland cement by fly ash, from a thermal power plant in Turkey, up to large volumes (55%). The investigated parameters are water requirement for a given slump, air content, setting time of...
Optimisation Model for Functional Properties of Concrete Roads
Concrete is a suitable material for road pavements, both technically and economically. That holds especially for roads with high traffic intensity and heavy loads. Concrete roads have several technical advantages such as high wear resistance and load bearing capacity, good durability and a bright surface. In order to make concrete...
Concrete Pavement on a Crushed Aggregate Unbound Roadbase a New Design for Heavy Traffic Motorways
The construction method involving the placement of a 30 cm-thick concrete roadway pavement on a 30 cm-thick crushed aggregate unbound roadbase instead of a 2.6 cm-thick concrete pavement on a bound roadbase has proved its worth in Germany for more than 10 years, generally for heavy-traffic motorways. It has several...
Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavements – from a Classical Conception to An Innovative Structure
Continuously Reinforced Concrete (CRC), invented in the United-States in 1921, has been developing in France since 1983, in the following contexts: - New constructions (50 km of motorway) The structures chosen are alternately: CRC + lean concrete CRC + bituminous concrete + stabilized capping layer - Strengthening of...
The Belgian Experience with Stabilisation by Recycling in Situ with Cement
The paper presents the progress to date of various worksites where stabilisation by recycling in situ with cement has been applied. This technique, which is the best way of recycling the existing road, consists in fact in mixing on site cement with the readily available crushed stones. It requires little...
Advancements in Continuous Concrete Plants
Since 1975, the year in which the first continuous concrete plant was introduced for a road construction project, the use of a continuous production process has become more widespread, and even generalized, in France. Applications in other European countries have started to appear, yet do remain in the nascent stages....
Flexural Strength of High Performance Concrete
High strength concrete (HSC) having a flexural strength considerably higher than that of ordinary pavement concrete would be a suitable material - to replace only a single lane of concrete pavement deteriorated by heavy duty traffic (see Fig. 1) or - for constructing new pavement for high load with limited...
Concreting Bombay Metropolis Roads in India
Deterioration of Bombay Metropolis roads during rainy season is a perpetual phenomenon. During the monsoon of 1988, the major roads constructed with hydrocarbon binders suffered severe damage causing great inconvenience to the users. In view of the mounting pressure from the public, at large the municipal authorities decided to switch...
Evaluation Method for Jointed Concrete Airfield and Pavements
In order to harmonize FWD condition surveys on concretee pavements in the Netherlands, CROW's committee UEC1 has developed an structural evaluation procedure for jointed concrete airfield pavements. The committee has developed procedures for in-situ testing and models for determining of the mechanical pavement properties based on FWD measurements. With respect...
Cracking of Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavements at a Young Age
Calculation of steel-concrete structures calls for understanding the bonding mechanisms, then, to reproduce them, formulating models of behaviour representative of the interface between the two materials in contact. In view of the researches already performed in this domain, we thought it essential to make use of a new test that...
Thin White Topping in Vienna
Conventional maintenance of rutted asphalt roads means resurfacing in short intervals or substitution of thick layers. Therefore, a new repair method was tested: Milling the top of the existing asphalt pavement, cleaning the surface and plaeing a dan layci of high performance concrete. The behaviour of the composite structure was...