Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC) is a no slump concrete that is placed by an asphalt paver and compacted with vibratory rollers similar to asphalt pavement construction. RCC has long history of good performance as a pavement for ports, container yards, and manufacturing plants. This paper will summarize a recent survey...
Concrete Pavements and Structures for Dedicated Public Transport Lanes
Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Caen, Grenoble, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nancy, Nantes, Nice, Orléans, Rouen, Saint-Étienne, Strasbourg, Paris . Which city hasnt developed or is about to develop its own network of public transport on dedicated lanes? Users warmly welcome this mode of public transport, typical of urban renewal projects for...
Flatness and Levelness of Concrete Pavements for Industrial Areas Requirements and Evaluation Methods
Among various construction activities, related to concrete pavement technologies, an important role is reserved to industrial floors; these structures, in many cases, present the same technical problems of road pavements. Characteristics, construction techniques, exercise conditions, maintenance and control of industrial pavements, in effect, are very similar to the ones usually...
Towards a Standardized Design Structure for Concrete Tramways in Flanders
For more than ten years tramway structures in Flanders have been built in concrete, particularly those which are subject to traffic loading by trams and city buses. As there has never been a standardized design, a wide range of different solutions have been tried, either in jointed concrete slabs with...
Concrete Pavements in Motorway Service Areas
Even if the forecasts for the development of goods traffic are more cautious than they were just a few years ago, growth remains strong in Europe. Most goods will continue to be transported by road in the future. Not everywhere, however, has the expansion of motorway rest and service areas...
In Situ Measurement of the Capillary Pressure in Concrete Road Construction
Concrete pavements are vulnerable to cracking already in the plastic material stage, i.e., before the concrete has reached a significant strength. Due to the evaporation of water at fresh concrete surfaces, a capillary pressure is built up in the pore system of the material. This underpressure leads to the so-called...
Sustainable Concrete Pavement Design Solutions Applied on the Largest PPP Motorway Construction Project in Europe
The authors present the sustainable pavement design solutions applied on 106 km long section of A2 toll motorway in Poland. For this largest infrastructure project, realized in the frame of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), the concession model, where the concessionaire has to be paid by public part for the accessibility of...
Measurements and Evaluation of the Bearing Capacity of Cement Concrete Pavements
Concrete pavements dynamic loading tests are one of the diagnostic method to which the goal is to obtain background for evaluation of bearing capacity. In this article are described experimental measurements and results of these measurements on various slab locations, taken from measurements for recognition of connection between slabs and...
France Fifteen Years Review on the Behaviour of Composites Pavements Concrete on Asphalt Mix
On the initiative of concrete road professionals on the one hand the French cement industry represented by its trade association CIMBETON and concrete pavement construction companies represented by the trade association SPECBEA and the French road administration represented by SÉTRA on the other hand, a new concrete pavement...
Classification and Methods for Rehabilitation of Concrete Pavement- a Spanish Example
Highways superficial rehabilitation appears nowadays as one environmental friendly option to increase the service life of pavements. The remaining structural section is responsible for providing enough resistance for the ongoing traffic loads. The basic goal of this kind of treatments is to recover a certain level of comfort and security...
In-situ Architectural Concrete and Pre-Dosed Micro-Concrete for Wear Thin Layer Pavements in Urban Areas Diogo Menezes Square as an Example of Environmental Renovation
In this communication the development of non traditional-solutions for pavement surfaces will be assessed, by the use of colored pre-dosed micro-concrete or in situ concrete in thin layers of high performance architectural applications for urban, pedestrian, cycling and roads. This assessment will be focused on frequently technical constructive barriers inherent...