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The Brazilian Army looked the Associação Brasileira de Cimento Portland (ABCP) for a strategic partnership, aiming to transfer technology and train the troops for such works. The result of this partnership was a full concrete pavement construction and control technology course, lasting two weeks, covering all stages, also including practical...

As an example of Spanish experience in the design of long-life pavements, this paper is going to examine the above-mentioned construction project for a stretch of motorway with a pavement of exposed aggregateexposed aggregate concrete. The cross-section of the pavement comprises: - 23 cm of HF 4.5 (concrete with a...

Prescriptions for concrete pavements issued by the Spanish Road Administration are included in two types of documents: the Standard for Structural Sections of Pavements (6.1 – IC) and the Specifications for Road and Bridge Works (PG 3). These documents were updated considering the latest advances in materials, construction processes and...

The Sevilla – Cádiz motorway was the first one in Spain where a concrete pavement was constructed with a slip-form paver. It was opened to traffic in 1971. Shortly, longitudinal cracks appeared, deemed to the presence of plastic soils in the subgrade. Sometimes these craks were several centimetres wide. It...

Long-life concrete pavements require less frequent repair, rehabilitation, and reconstruction, and therefore contribute to improving highway safety and mitigating congestion. Experience with these pavements, including examples of concrete pavements that have remained in service for more than 35 years. CRCP set out to offer the market a new alternative in...

A 43 km long continuously reinforced concrete pavement was opened to traffic 34 years ago connecting three important cities in an industrial region in the North of Spain. Each carriageway has two lanes 3.75 m wide, an outer shoulder 3.00 m wide and an inner shoulder 1.50 m wide. A...

We attempt to present the management of concrete pavements made by Aumar on motorways which is the concessionaire: data collection and its management, application of their model of pavement, performance of this one, repairs and rehabilitation.

A new methodology has been developed to design the concrete slab thickness by optimizing the slab size given the geometry of the truck axles, the design is based on an unbonded system with either granular, HMA, Stabilized or Concrete Base. The key principle of the design method is to configure...

The task of calculating road pavements is an easy one. However, reaching the point of choosing a type of pavement one is confronted with many possible solutions. They can all meet to the technical terms, such as bearing capacity, safety and durability. The growing importance of sustainable building has added...

The use of continuously reinforced concrete pavements (CRCP) is well spread in Belgium, mainly because of the confidence in its durability. It is used frequently on Belgian motorways and also on other heavily trafficked roads. The behaviour of CRCP is influenced by a number of specific characteristics such as the...

Nonwoven geotextiles between cementitious layers have been part of the design and construction of concrete pavements in Germany since 1981. German experience with nonwoven geotextile interlayers includes the design and construction of unbonded overlays and new pavement. German pavement engineers recognize that nonwoven geotextile interlayers provide three specific functions that...

The first concrete pavement was built in Hungary with ABG slip form paver on motorway M7 between Budapest and Lake Balaton. After 30 years, concrete pavement was built again on the Motorway M0 around Budapest. The limited performance capacity of asphalt pavements on expressways and motorways made it necessary to...