The object of this articleisto evaluate the influence of materials used in the construction of rigid pavements, and of the method of placing the con-crete on the final pavement quality.Using the results of laboratory tests and experi-ments taken from the available literature, the ut-most attention must be paid to the...
Current Trends and Criteria For the Selection of Materials For Concrete Pavements
A Project of Concrete Cycle Tracks in the Region of Hasselt
In spite of numerous cyclists (3.5 millions), until the seventies, the emphasis was in particular on the construction of motor roads and motorways. The cyclist was fairly vulnerable in this environment. From the eighties onward, a new vision appeared in the Flemish region: in and around conurbations, cycle track plans...
The Asturias Motorway Balance of Its First 15 Years Under Traffic
The Asturias motorway, called «y» -asturiana, links the three most important cities in Asturias. It has 43 km of continuously reinforced concrete pavement and was built during 1974and 1975.The behaviour of the motorway up to now has been very good in spite of the rainy weather and the unfavourable geology....
Continously Reinforced Concrete Overlay on Highway E 40 Near Liege Belgium
During the last years, many CRCP overlays have been made in Belgium. One of them has been laid in 1988 on highway E 40 in the province of Liège (8,250 km). The paper gives the reasons of the choice of CRCP for the renewal of the highway and describes the...
Roller-Compacted Concrete as a Road Building Material in South Africa
Roller-compacted concrete (ReC) offers a solution to the vast number of good quality lowvolume roads which will have to be provided in the near future to accommodate South Africa's rapidly expanding rural road needs. The research effort presented in this paper involved a laboratory study and the construction and accelerated...
Hard Shoulders on Autobahns
Hard shoulders provide space for vehicles to stop in an emergency. They additionally provide space to function as traffic lane to keep traffic moving in the customary number of lanes if part of the carriageways is closed for repair measures. In the case of concrete pavements, the structural design and...
A Contractors View of Concrete Pavements in the Expanding Uk Market Place with Particular Reference to Continuously Reinforced Concrete Road Base
The paper reviews the reasons for continuously reinforced pavement design, and the economics of the choice of paving method. The current UK specification, its limitations and the potential va-riance with European and American specificationsare considered with its effect on the historic UKmarket, together with an opinion of the futuremarket.For the...
Low-Noise Surfacing on Concrete Roads
he Utrecht-Amersfoort motorway (A28) was constructed with onreinforced, lightly brushed cement concrete with dowels. r1easurements taken in 1987 indicated that the level of noise nconvenience to the surrounding area exceeded the legally per-ritted standard. In 1988 a 3,500 m stretch of the road was firstround until it was even, then...
The Chemical Characterization of Admixtures For Cement Concrete
Although the Belgian standards provide for quality control of idrnixtures for cement concrete, it is interesting to complement his information by a more thorough chemical identification. this makes it possible to increase the economic advantages vhich result from their use. nfrared spectrographic investigation, which enables the ategory of basic chemical...
Nature Related Constructions in Rural Districts Wheel-Track Paving with Concrete
In the sixties and seventies it used to be the traditional way to build paved country roads in full width in rural road construction. Economical consciousness, agricultural production zones -in the context of developing better economical systems-forced us to change our views. A very natural path is a wheel-track path...
Evaluation and Maintenance of the Concrete Pavements on the Mediterranean Highway
The Mediterranean Highway has been in service for more than fifteen years, and we can state that the performance of the concrete paving has been overall excellent whether referring to its surface characteristics or its structural characteristics, except for those areas giving support where damage has taken place. The modifications...
Traffic Management Layouts with Improved Capacity For Major Roadworks Narrow Lanes and Tidal Flow Operations
The layout commonly used at major motorway sites in the United Kingdom is the full contra-flow, which carries two traffic lanes in each direction on one carriageway, releasing the other carriageway for reconstruction. To improve operational efficiency, two adaptations of this layout, which operate with a reversible (or tidal) lane,...