This paper addresses the appraisal and management procedure used for more than 20 years by a toll motorway concessionaire, covering a total of 300 kilometres of concrete dual carriageway built between 1970 and 1985. The system of analysis, surveys and experiments carried out during this period was based on auscultations...
Hydraulic Concrete Roadways on the Autopista Del Mediterraneo Appraisal and Management
The Importance of Continuous Slab Support and Load Transfer at Joints in the Performance of Thin Concrete Overlays
Studies on the structural performance of existing Portland cement concrete roads in South Africa (1) have shown that the traffic utilizing these roads is not the pnme initiator of structural failures. Factors such as construction, environment and slab support conditions are predominant in initiating structural failures. However, it is also...
A New Laboratory Test to Evaluate the Shear Resistance at the Interface of Thin Bonded Overlays
The effectiveness of thin bonded overlays depends upon the adhesion level at the interface with the existing concrete pavement. It appears that shrinkage, particularly at the very early ages (18-24 hours), is mainly responsible for delamination, i.e. separation between old pavement and overlay. The present paper discusses the results of...
Recycling Cold-Milled Asphalt Concrete Materials as Cement Bounded Base
The authors present a synthesis of the results obtained on 3 test sections where cold-milled bituminous concrete has been recycled for the reconstruction of the stabilized base for medium trafficked roads. The inert skeleton for the base was made from 85% (by weight) milled material and 15% sand, this in...
Fibre Reinforced Concrete Roads Surfaced with Concrete Paving Stones
The paper describes enhanced specifications for concrete block roads suitable for heavy channelised traffic in city centres. It describes two case studies and shows how bedding sand and fibre reinforced concrete roadbases can be specified to ensure zero rutting and a cost effective solution.
The French Architectonic Concrete Paving Development
This paper present the good possibilities that we can expect with exposed aggregate concrete surfaces
Pavement Design Procedures for New Construction and Rehabilitation with Overlay
The first part of the paper deals with the designing of rigid pavements by means of FEM. The NE10-SOILIN program uses the NE-10 finite elements composed of subelement 2D NE-10-M (tetragonal element), subelement 3D NE-I013RJCK and subsoil element. It models the Midlins slab placed on a generally multilayer structure. Under...
Technical Conditions for Completely Using the Advantages of Concrete Pavements
It is immanent for concrete pavements not to get plastic deformations and therefore concrete pavements are especially suitable for heavy traffic roads. However, pavement performance depends from avoiding of some structural faults.
Use of Fast Track Concrete Paving for Restoration Work
Many roads in Belgium, both main and secondary, are in need of modernisation or repairs. The surface area of old concrete pavements that are thus concerned on an annual basis is estimated at approximately half a million m2 . The inconvenience to the user caused by this type of work...
Method to Establish the Porosity – Depth Distribution of Porous Concrete Pavements Using Cylindrical 100 Cml Cores Samples
The paper deals with a low cost method to establish the porosity - depth distribution in porous concrete pavement using cylindrical 100cm cores samples. The outcome is a graph representing the porosity in function of the depth below the surface. The method is non destructive with regard to the core...
Sand-Concrete Pavements Gainful Use of Local Materials
To complete the road between La Teste town and the famous , the Gironde Regional Council use the knowledge and experience requied during the national research and development project on sand concrete named SABLOCRETE to build a sand concrete slab pavement structure along 3,5 kilometres. The owners and engineers of...
Analysis of the Response of Concrete Pavement Slabs Jointed by Dowel Bars
The present paper aims to contribute to the study of the structural response of concrete slabs jointed by dowel bars in pavements. As is known, a common construction technique of pavements is this one that uses concrete slabs interconnected each other in both directions by equidistant dowel steel bars. A...