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Movie – Concrete Joint Cracking Machine Concrete roads and industrial pavements

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This forum addressed both concrete road pavements & concrete industrial pavements. Presentations made addressed concrete mix designs, design & construction aspects, as well as current information about diamond grinding of concrete road pavements in Australia. The video demonstrates the use of an innovative machine to effect concrete pavement jointing.

Design Methodology for Load Transfer at Joints in Industrial Concrete Slabs and Pavements

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The ASCP forum on Industrial Pavements provided valuable information on design, detailing, materials and construction issues related to industrial pavements. It also highlighted several differing opinions and challenges to existing practices. This presentation by Bruce Ireland covers: Minimum requirements for selecting load transfer dowels in industrial pavement design are discussed...

New Developments in Concrete Mix Design

Airports, Highways, Industrial, Intermodals/Ports, Trackslabs Members Only

This forum addressed both concrete road pavements & concrete industrial pavements. Presentations made addressed concrete mix designs, design & construction aspects, as well as current information about diamond grinding of concrete road pavements in Australia. New developments in concrete mix design: • Sands have become finer with a gap between...

Good Concrete Mix Design

Airports, Highways, Industrial, Intermodals/Ports, Trackslabs Members Only

This forum addressed both concrete road pavements & concrete industrial pavements. Presentations made addressed concrete mix designs, design & construction aspects, as well as current information about diamond grinding of concrete road pavements in Australia. Good Concrete Mix Design: •Understand requirements of the concrete. •Identify if an existing mix may...

Forum feedback – G Ayton Industrial pavements – design, joint details, construction, mix design, fibres

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The ASCP forum on Industrial Pavements provided valuable information on design, detailing, materials and construction issues related to industrial pavements. It also highlighted several differing opinions and challenges to existing practices. This forum was also timely in relation to the planned review of its industrial pavements design and construction guides...

Diamond Grinding

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This forum addressed both concrete road pavements & concrete industrial pavements. Presentations made addressed concrete mix designs, design & construction aspects, as well as current information about diamond grinding of concrete road pavements in Australia. Presentation by David Dash covers: equipment and components used for diamond grinding United States practices...

Industrial Pavement Design Principles – A Wright Industrial pavements – design, joint details, construction, mix design, fibres

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The ASCP forum on Industrial Pavements provided valuable information on design, detailing, materials and construction issues related to industrial pavements. It also highlighted several differing opinions and challenges to existing practices. This forum was also timely in relation to the planned review of its industrial pavements design and construction guides...

Post Tensioned Industrial Pavements – B Hannan Industrial pavements – design, joint details, construction, mix design, fibres

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The ASCP forum on Industrial Pavements provided valuable information on design, detailing, materials and construction issues related to industrial pavements. It also highlighted several differing opinions and challenges to existing practices. This forum was also timely in relation to the planned review of its industrial pavements design and construction guides...

Concrete Placing & Finishing – Industrial pavements – design, joint details, construction, mix design & fibres

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Concrete Placement Screeding controls levels Finishing controls flatness Finishing techniques Scrapping straight edges Ride-on trowels Measuring Flatness and Levelness Why Standards = straight edge vs F-min How

Effect of pavement roughness on fuel consumption

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The presentation by Arvo Tinni provides worked examples of fuel efficiency savings with reduced roughness. The basis of the presentation is an ARRB Research Report ARR31, which is based on 7 prior studies. Concluding that a unit change in IRI has an average change in fuel consumption of 1%. The...

Concrete roads save fuel – 2008 Canadian Study

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Arvo Tinni's presentation references a 2008 Canadian study by the National Research Council, Centre for Surface Transportation Technology. A comparative study of three pavement types - concrete, asphalt and composite. Reported truck fuel savings of 1.8% and 3% at 100km/hr and 60km/hr respectively for concrete when compared with the next...

Concrete Pavement Ride Quality – Connecting Theory and Practice

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Causes of roughness IRI Roughness testing methods Bump car Walking profilometer