Improvement of the Adherence between Old and New Concrete in Road Construction – Procedures and Testing Methods

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The mechanical adherence properties of new concrete bound with old concrete surfaces which had been pretreated in a conventional manner as well as with new techniques, have been studied uding fracture mechanical methods. It was shown that far better adherences are achieved with specially structured old concrete surfaces than with...

Stabilization of Contaminated Soils

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The elution behaviour of acid and alkaline soils, contaminated with diesel oil, PER and mercury salt, of different grading curves (sandy loam to loam-free fine gravel), was examined both before and after stabilization with cement. After cement stabilization, all heavily contaminated soils (eluate class Ill) yielded an eluate that corresponded...

Urban and Pen-Urban Porous Pavements

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The control of disturbances (noise, flooding, runoff water pollution, etc.) nowadays constitutes a major preoccupation of local populations. The roadway, in the diversity of the functions it performs in the urban and pen-urban scctor, can contnibutc activcly to the control of such disturbances. Porous pavements constitute a valuable area of...

The Implementation of RCC Pavements in Colombia

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Colombia is a developing country with enormous difficulties for the implementation of new technologies due to their introduction costs and the positioning of existing ones. Despite the constant academic efforts to keep it alive, the construction of concrete pavements has been asleep for years as a consequence of the obsolescence...

Experiences with the Treatment of some Defects of a Concrete Pavement during Construction

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The aim of this paper is to discuss some defects of the concrete pavement during the construction of the second northern expressway project in Taiwan. The possible reasons of and techniques for repairing these defects are studied in the paper. The defects discussed include the cracks in the lean concrete...

The Construction of Underground Concrete Roadways at Finsch Diamond Mine (South Africa)

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In this paper the different types of underground roadways, the development of the design of in situ concrete paving and the problems of designing for these special conditions are discussed. These include the use of moisture sensitive subgrade/subbase, very irregular founding conditions, varying and even dynamic loading due to blast...

New Opinions in the Friction Problematic with Brushed Textures and Exposed Aggregates

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Washed or fine brushed concrete was introduced in the Netherlands, replacing rough brushed concrete, to reduce the road noice. In many cases the minimum friction coefficient required was not reached. However, measurements carried out some months later showed an improvement of the results. To investigate if this improvement of the...

Bidding Procedure, Contract Award and Construction of the Motorway Al 5 between Cottbus-West and Forst (Germany)

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The turnkey construction method can be very beneficial to an employer both during the bidding process and during construction. A turnkey road construction project was selected for the first time in Germany as the construction method for the A15 motorway between Cottbus-West and Forst. In order to alleviate backups within...

Further Improvement of the Durability of Concrete Pavements by using Higher Strengths

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Road concrete in the thirties did not have a particularly high strength, but it grew over the years. Strength tests on cores, taken last year, show that the strength -compressive as well as the more important splitting tensile- of the old section and also of almost all new ones is...

Thin Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete Overlays and Inlays

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Between 1982 aiid 1989, 8 thin overlay test sections were constructed with a total surface area of 129.000 m2 . The relevant research project is carried out with a view to the necessary future renovation of part of the Belgium road network. All sections were built with 10 to 12...

A New Technique for Preckracking Materials Treated with Hydraulic Binders

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Precracking techniques are used for materials treated with hydraulic binders in order to restrict the effect of shrinkage cracks on the pavement performance. After developing a precracking technique for port platform stwctures in 1984, Via france recently received and developed a new technique for road pavements. This technique applies to...

Cement Concrete Structures in the Design of Urban Roadways

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Urban roadways represent considerable stakes from both the quantitative and qualitative standpoints, with the almost permanent concern today for integration with respect to the site and to users of public spaces. A non-exhaustive review of the trends in practices and tools available to designers, builders and managers of urban roadways...