According to the findings made on French road network about .helow skidding resistance, GAILLEDRAT Pére & Fils com-rany developed a new surface treatment concept: THE SUR-:;'ACESHOTBLASTING.l'his technique which allows to treat most of the slippery road.urface problems on asphalt or concrete pavements. permits toncrease the surface roughness "as requested" and...
Road Surfaces Roughness by Shotblasting
The Potential of Thinner Concrete Pavements: Evidence from Accelerated Testing
Overseas thin concrete slabs have been used successfully and have been shown to be economic. To evaluate the suitability of this type of construction under South African conditions, four experimental sections were constructed to evaluate the interaction of slab thickness and subbase thickness and quality. The sections were trafficked with...
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...
Porous Urban Pavements in Cement Concrete
Questions regarding the environment are being particularly felt in certain countries, and noise con-trol requirements have led to the development ofthin free draining materials able to limit tirepavement contact noise.We shallbe dealingherenotwith a thin free draining pavement structure, butwith a porous concrete pavement of 40 cm thick-ness. Theoretical studies have...
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...
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...
Concrete Continuously Reinforced with Flat_ Slotted_ Galvanised Steel Strips. Experience of FLEXARM Reinforcements. French Road Network 1986-1989
The dream of concrete pavement constructors, to replace the conventional difficult-to-fix reinforce-ments, which require a considerable manual work-force, with a continuous bobbin-wound reinforce-ment, has today become a reality. The chosensolution was a weldable carbon steel, with an elas-ticlimitgreater than 700MPA, a rectangular cross-section 40 mm x 2 mm, slotted for...
Developments in Noise Redution of Concrete Roads in the Netherlands
In the Netherlands experiments have been performed recently :onceming noise reduction on concrete roads. Three pos-.ibilities are being investigated:I. Top layer of no-fines porous concrete.~. Surface of washed dense concrete.. Dense concrete with fine-grained epoxy surface treatment. noise emission level slightly higher than on porous asphalt,iut much less than on...
Long Term Performance and Economic Aspects of Concrete Roads in Austria
Austria has more than 30 years' experience in concrete road construction. Half of the approximately 650 km of motorways with a concrete pavement are more than 20 years old. 40/0have already been reconstructed, some 14% will have to be reconstructed within the next 5 to 10 years. The remainder is...
The Effect of Heavy Loads on the Stress Distribution at the Surface of a Crc Pavement
A continuosly reinforced concrete pavement has been laid in 1984 within the steel mill Sidmar near the city of Ghent in Belgium. This paper deals with the tests performed in 1987 on the pavement and the analysis of the results. A French device, called "Ovalimètre", made it possible to measure...
Correlation Between Research and Construction of Concrete Roads
During the past two decades, the practice-oriented research work done when concrete roads are built has lead to further development of slab construc-tion, to new solutions to individual constructio-nal problems, and to development of new cons-tructional methods. Based on existing research re-sults, more reliable statements can be made on thedegree...