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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....

Concrete Pavement Preservation (CPP) is a series of engineered techniques developed over the past 40 years to manage the rate of pavement deterioration in concrete streets, highways and airports. CPP is a non-overlay option used to repair areas of distress in concrete pavement without changing its grade. This rational, preventive...

From both an environmental and economic point of view, the availability and performance capability of infrastructure traffic areas today and in the future is of the highest priority. This applies to both public and private roads and air traffic areas, as well as for busy parking and logistics areas and...

In 2009, an innovative road pavement "Continuous Reinforced Concrete Pavement with Ground Texture" was successfully realised by HeidelbergCement AG with the pilot project, "Geseke access road ". In an extensive measurement programme, long-term measurements are being made over a period of 5 years to investigate the behaviour of the carriageway...

The technique of continuously reinforced concrete is used in Belgium for the construction or rehabilitation of heavily trafficked motorway sections. Since a few years, double layered CRCP is being considered in order to improve the rolling noise characteristics of the surface. In this paper, two worksites where CRCP was used,...

The technique of continuously reinforced concrete for pavement construction is being applied in Belgium since the 1960s. The original design underwent several changes over time, sometimes for economic reasons but mostly in order to improve the long term behaviour of the pavements. Today there are still possibilities for further optimisation,...

Our modern world is characterised by traffic, the traffic of goods and/or information. Both will increase in the near future. Further there will be a strong increase in communication technology which will influence the individual traffic as well. At the same time all kinds of emissions caused either by the...

The Strategic Highway Research Program 2 (SHRP 2) recently completed a study entitled, “Real-Time Smoothness Measurements on Portland Cement Concrete Pavements during Construction”. As part of this project, the feasibility of this technology was explored. There was both an evaluation and demonstration of emerging and proven technologies. Model specifications and...

The paper reports the results of an experimental study aimed at designing cement bound granular mixtures for pavement foundations, made exclusively with marginal materials, namely electric arc furnace steel slags, ladle furnace slags, waste foundry sands, glass wastes and coal ashes, used with different proportions. The laboratory investigation has been...

The curling behavior of the continuously reinforced concrete pavement (CRCP) under environmental loads was analyzed by measuring vertical displacements at a number of different longitudinal and transverse locations, and the relationship between the surface smoothness and curling behavior was investigated. Two different crack spacings were selected and at each discrete...

There is significant uncertainty and variation in the environmental life cycle assessment of pavements. Uncertainty and scenario variation should be sufficiently accounted in the comparative life cycle assessment in order to increase the confidence on decisions regarding the environmental implications of alternative pavement systems. In this paper we first present...