In a still recent past, research and innovation in the field of concrete pavements progressed mainly within the field of high volume pavements for roads and airports. This sustained and productive effort remains, giving rise to an expertise well documented in technical publications. Several countries converge in adopting constructive measures,...
Cement Concrete Public Highways Recent Developments in Technical Literature and Applications
Stresses Analysis of Cemented Bases on Concrete Pavement
Traditional methods for road concrete pavements design do not take into account the structural contribuition of cemented bases and its fatigue consumption uiidei the traffic loads. Sections designed without major care about the structural reponses of those bases can develop early cracks, decreasing the structural capacity of the pavement. This...
Combined Mechanical and Thermal Loading on Plain and Steel Fibrez Reinforced Concrete Pavements
Plaiti aiid steel fibre reinforced concrete beams are subjected to solely thermal; solely mechanical and combined thermal and mechanical loads while the rotation of the beam-ends are prevented. The variables in the tests are type of load and combination of loads. In order to estimate the degree of restraint, some...
Air-Entraining Agents in Road Concrete Code of Good Practice and Field Experiments
Air-entraining agents are increasingly recommended as a mean to counteract the ever more severe deterioration of road cement concretes in winter. However, their use is still raising problems as far as the specifications and the practical implementation of the technology are concerned. The results of research conducted by BRRC and...
Effectiveness of Load Transfer in Jointed Reinforced Concrete Pavement
The load tiansfer due to the dowel bars in jointed reinforced concrete pavements (JRCP) or to the steel reinforcing in continuously reinforced concrete pavements (CRCP) has also the effect of reducing the stress on the edge of the load slab. Therefore, the calculation of the load transfer between contiguous slabs...
Belgian Applications of Concrete Inlays on Motorways
Today all highways and road managers are confronted with the problem of the rutting of dense asphaltic concrete roads due to the steady traffic increase of heavy vehicles. Consequently, the lifetime of the low speed right lane decreases much faster than the lifetime of the left lane, which is merely...
Mechanical Properties and Structure of Porous Concrete
A test road with 40 n-mi porous concrete top layer on a 180 mm thick continuously reinforced concrete pavement has been constructed in May 1996 in Belgium following the wet-in-wet method. A preliminary test program was conducted at the Catholic University of Leuven to reveal the influence of different polymer...
Stiff Concrete Paving on Minor Road Systems – Results of a National Inquiry About Mountain Roads
Our investigation was aimed at obtaining information on the road pavements of several mountain road systems subjected to limited traffic and leading to sheep-farming settlements or woodland areas managed by local mountain consortia (Mountain Communities, CM). Steeper car-track sections were found to be paved in concrete to prevent vehicles from...
Control of the Rate of Concrete Compaction in the Structure – a Guarantee of the Cement Concrete Pavement and Base Durability
A 7 Lu 8% reduction in compactness of air-entrained concrete with respect to the maximum one is a positive factor from the frost, -salt resistance standpoint, nevertheless, such compactness of roller compacted concrete can lead to dangerous results. The existing methods of controlling the compaction rate (measuring the volume of...
The Influence of Friction Between Layers on Surface Deflections of Rigid Composite Pavement Structures
The paper presents the influence of friction between layers on surface detlections of rigid composite pavement structures. Pavement structures were analysed using BISAR Programme and non- destructive testing technique under different bonding conditions between the asphalt and the concrete layers. The analysis of the data involves the use of hack-calculation...
High-Strength Concrete for Road Pavements Netherlands 141
The last decade, the technology to design concrete mortars with a high compressive strength have evolved tremendously. The strength of concrete has progressed upto strength values of 130 Mpa. The development of high strength concrete can give the traditional pavement construction techniques a new impulse. Due to the relatively short...
Judgment of Compaction Degree of Rccp by Using Acceleration Waves on Vibrating Roller and Influence of Subgrade Bearing Capacity on It
The acceleration wave of the vibrating compactor under work is disturbed from the sine wave. In this research, the disturbance of acceleration wave was defined as degree of disturbance WD, the relation between compacting time, hearing capacity of ground, consistency of concrete, compaction degree of concrete, strength of concrete and...