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...
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....
Long-Time Observations of Contracfion Joint Opening in Concrete Pavements Measurement and Evaluation
Long-time measurements of contraction joint opening were performed during a 25-year period for several pavement systems [concrete full depth construction, concrete pavement on a temperature insulated, cement treated (CTS) and bituminous subbase]. The data obtained were analyzed and the mean opening of the joints, the standard deviation, the coefficient of...
Experiences in Non-Destrucfive Testing by Impulse Radar and Impedance Methods in the Evaluation of Concrete High-Ways
The background to the two methods is given; together with their application to concrete pavements. Three case histories are presented where concrete highways have been tested by these techniques in the United Kingdom, some sections having asphalt overlays. The relative merits and disadvantages of the two methods are discussed in...
Reflective Cracking on Concrete Pavements with Cement Treated Sub-Base
One concrete pavement just built was showing some located transverse cracking. In order to evaluate the cracking cause, longitudinal displacements were measured in some cracks and transverse joints. Results obtained showed that concrete cracking was reflected from cement treated base cracks, and allowed to verify that such phenomena happened in...
A Programme of Comparative Tests on Plain Fabric Reinforced & Fibre Reinforced Concrete Ground Slabs
This paper reports on the first phase of a test programme which compares the performance of concrete ground slabs with (a) no reinforcement, (b) steel fabric reinforcement, (c) steel fibre reinforcement and (d) polypropylene fibre reinforcement. The slabs were 3.0m square, 0.15 and 0.13 m deep and subjected to a...
Assessment of Survival Probabilities of Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavements
This paper proposes a theoretically sound method of modeling the reliability function of pavement sections, using a statistical procedure that can correctly consider test sections that have not yet reached failure. Consistent and accurate reliability estimates were obtained applying this method to a continuously reinforced concrete pavements (CRCP) data base...
Data Base and Pavement Condition Surveys of Concrete Roads in the Shrp Long-Term Pavement Performance Study
The Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) research program, a component of the Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP), was launched in 1987 as a $50 million effort to collect field observations of both in-service and new, specially constructed test sections throughout North America. This paper deals primarily with the pavement distress evaluation...
Evaluation of Existing Pavements and Conçrete Overlay Design in the Netherlands
Working Committee «Overlay in concrete» is founded to create a manual containing practical methods for designing and building concrete overlays for road and airport pavements for Dutch conditions. Results of the Working Committee activities are presented in this paper. A method to determine the bearing capacity of existing pavements is...
Cement Concrete Secondary Roads Management Using the Belgian Road Research Centre Gersec System
A pavement management system for secondary road networks has been developed by the Belgian Road Research Centre for local government agencies and municipalities and handles both cement concrete and bituminous pavements. The system called GERSEC integrates technical approaches and economical evaluations with a view to optimize the distribution of the...
Long Term Performance and Economic Aspects of Concrete Roads in Austria
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...