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This document sets out the strategic themes to be focussed on in 2020.

This Presentation on Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC) experience in the U.S.A outlines: What is RCC and RCCP? Does it have a place on Australian projects? Is RCC still Slipformed Concrete’s Ugly sister? Application Examples of RCCP – Roads – Industrial Why is North America leading the world?

With more concrete pavements being constructed over soft soil foundations, the use of coal combustion products, such as furnace (bottom) ash, to provide bridging of soft areas and reduced construction risk by being able to be placed insitu in wet weather, becomes more critical. The use of such materials in...

Due to its central location in europe Germany is a typical transit country, where traffic load by heavy traffic increases anually. Highways are especially affected, with freight traffic not only increasing in number but also showing a trend of 5-axle vehicles with larger utilization of the allowed axle loads at...

In this research the influence of sand grading on the air void system in mortar is determined. Three sand grading types are defined: sand “low”, sand “mean” and sand “high”. The difference is the amount of fines, < 250 ?m, (low, mean and high amount of fines) in the sand....

New legislation for improving accessibility to buses by people and especially disabled people led to the modification of bus platforms and particularly the kerbs at these platforms. Buses should be able to approach quite close to these platforms. This depends on the design of the bus stop area. The dimensions...

On site pavement recycling with cement is the most sustainable restoration technique, by means of which a degraded pavement is transformed into a consistent and more homogeneous structure, using the road as a source of aggregates. Both bearing capacity and homogeneity are therefore considerably improved. Due to the absence of...

While much research in the United States (U.S.) has focused on the development, enhancement, and sensitivity of the AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design (previously known and MEPDG and DARWin-ME) method, little work has focused on comparing the results from this design method to other design methods already regularly used in practice....

The Mexican Federal Government has allocated a great deal of investment to the maintenance of pavements across the existing road network (in 2010 and 2011, this investment amounted to €7,860M and €7,894M respectively). During the 1990s, a pavement system was introduced in Mexico involving the incorporation of Portland cement using...

The report outlines some of the perceptions and issues associated with Concrete roads, and asks if the process of Diamond Grinding is a viable solution to the refurbishment of worn concrete pavements. The paper outlines the process of Diamond Grinding for reconditioning structurally sound but worn concrete surfaces. Gives a...

The quality of sand influences in every way the quality of concrete and affects, among others, the workability, the durability as well as the mechanical strength of concrete. It is acknowledged that a sand of good quality to be used in concrete pavements must contain few fine grains and be...

The demand to use recycled aggregates in concrete is getting more important. However, to obtain a sustainable road, it is necessary to construct durable pavements and therefore to use concrete of good and reliable quality. The use of recycled aggregates will give environmental advantages but could lead to excessive shrinkage...