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The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) National Airport Pavement Test Facility (NAPTF) is located at the William J. Hughes Technical Center, Atlantic City International Airport, New Jersey. The primary objective of the tests performed at the NAPTF is to generate full-scale pavement performance and response data for development and verification of...

Usually pavements for heavy load service are constructed with double reinforced concrete. Mostly their thickness is about 40 cm and – beside the high costs – there are structural problems with the placing and the design of joints, if unwanted cracks and steel corrosion should be avoided. In addi-tion to...

Depending on the prevailing material and energy prices, concrete roads can be made more cost-effective than asphalt roads. However, to provide a truly sustainable solution, it is necessary to reduce the energy consumption associated with the production and maintenance of concrete roads, as well as to minimise their construction /...

This paper describes a new joint, in rigid pavement , employing octagonal slabs who link with square slabs, the angle between the sides of the octagonal slabs, have at each corner , 135 degrees. in any corner of this octagon, between the edges of the pavement. The square slab who...

The Sinard tunnel (length 980 metres), located South of Grenoble, is one of the few in France to have a concrete pavement. Once the tunnel was opened to traffic, in 2007, a campaign of photometric measurements was initiated to follow the evolution of photometric characteristics of the concrete pavement with...

A great number of cities, looking for a sustainable and attractive urban transport regarding speed, reliability and service quality, are promoting public transport on dedicated lanes, either with railway systems or with buses. Due to their versatility and lower construction and operating costs, buses become more interesting than railway systems....

Since the beginning of the development of concrete vehicle restraint systems in the 1960s with the introduction of the New Jersey profile in the United States quite a lot of efforts have been taken by researchers, authorities and industry worldwide to raise effectiveness and safety of concrete and steel barriers....

This paper presents an on-going, international research project, aimed at demonstrating the valid-ity of an innovative concept of long-life wearing course. The High-Performance Cementitious Mate-rial (HPCM) consists of an ultra-thin, 8 mm layer of Ultra-High Performance Fibre Reinforced Mor-tar, in which hard, non-polishing aggregates are embedded. This composite material is...

Portuguese Air Force (PoAF) has, over the years, adopted the above mentioned solution for the construction of concrete pavements in their operational areas, considering this is the best suited technical and economical option to build and carry out aeronautical pavements in a successful way. Although this solution has higher initial...

The cyclo-pedestrian footbridge built at the beginning of 2009 over the former L160 railway line in Brussels (Auderghem) consists of a 58-metre long reinforced concrete slab (cross-section 4.50m x 0.30m), “chaotically” supported by 37 wooden stilts (Douglas Fir). Its horizontal stability is ensured by two concrete abutments; the stilts, ball-and-socket...

In Belgium, as in many European countries, traffic at major junctions is managed increasingly by constructing right-of-way roundabouts, which allow safer and smoother traffic flow. The intense heavy traffic at these roundabouts induces extreme stresses in the pavement, both as a result of centrifugal forces as well as the overloading...

Cities worldwide are facing problems of traffic congestion in their centres and suburban areas as well as on access roads. In densely populated countries like Belgium and the Netherlands this phenomenon also occurs on roads linking cities. Because of these mobility problems and the serious impact on the environment, decision...