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...
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...
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...
Ultrasonic Method in Concrete Road Testing
To determine the concrete strength in road surface the authors have applied an ultrasonic method. In this method ultrasonic transducers are imposed to the upper surface of the pavement slab. The distance between the transducers is constant. Next propagation time of longitudinal ultrasonic wave is measured. The time of propagation...
Payement Management For Concrete Pavements
The Illinois interstate highway network includes over 1700 centerline miles of jointed concrete and continuously reinforced concrete pavements. The pavements were constructed beginning in the 1950's through the 1980's and represent a wide range in designs and traffic loadings. This large highway network is now requiring extensive rehabilitation work as...
Light-Traffic Roads in France Towards New Practices
Decentralization has brought about significantly renewed interest in France in investments for regional and local roads, their rehabilitation and maintenance. Many methodological tools have been developed in the past 10 years to prepare and accompany these trends in areas in which cement concrete had played a sinall relative part in...
The Development of Concrete Safety Barriers in France
The use of concrete safety barriers is currently increasing considerably. The area of use, limited for a long time to urban or suburban carriageways, has now spread to the whole of the road network. The appearance of sites longer than 10km had led companies to work in a different manner,...
The Use of Steel Fibre Reinforced Concrete in Heavy Duty Port Pavements
Recent years have witnessed a considerable growth in importance of heavy duty pavements, mainly because of several major pavement failures in ports leading to serious problems. A recent development took place in the concrete technology and has considerably increased the cost effectiveness and performance of concrete heavy duty pavements making...
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...
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...
Concrete Pavements on Industrial and Port Areas the Belgian Experience
The relative improvement of the economic situation, the growing transport by trucks and the increasing use of containers have created an important need for durable pavements, with very low maintenance cost. Due to the rich Belgian experience with concrete roads, many companies prefer to use concrete for surfacing industrial and...
Appropriate Technology Concrete Pavement Trials in Zimbabwe
In 1985 four trial sections of two-lane concrete pavement were laid in Zimbabwe. The purpose was to provide a data base for the preparation of appropriate design and maintenance specifications, suitable for the conditions found over a large part of Africa, namely, good subgrades, moderate rainfall, large temperature variations, low...