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New Composite Cement for High Early Strength Concrete

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Even small repairs on roads and runways are time consuming and lead to long time obstructions. Normal cement type mortars and concretes do exhibit iallier long hardening times and are therefore, not suitable for fast track repair. Non cementitious repair materials like resin types have other disadvantages as being only...

Concrete Safety Barriers and Coming European Standards

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For the year-long approved concrete safety barriers, produced of in-situ concrete or prefabricated units, the new EN 1317 part 1 will discribe the general criterions of the test methods in the future, and part 2 the performance classes and acceptance criteriOns. The opening of the European Market has consequences for...

Computation of Self-Locking Concrete Block Pavements with Finite Element Analysis

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The examined computation procedure for self-locking concrete block pavements is based on the ordinary methods adopted for the computation of flexible and semi-rigid pavements. These methods consider a stress and silaiti distiibutiou uiidei design loads. The analysis considers both the classic, elastic multilayer model, and an axisymmetric, finite element model...

Revision of the Austrian Design Method for Standardised Concrete Pavements

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The Austrian specification for pavement design also contains standardised construction types for concrete roads. After more than 10 years of experience with the application of these standard pavement types the specification has been revised comprehensively with a special focus on the following objectives: - establishment of an improved method for...

A Geotechnical Methodology for Roller Compacted Concrete Mixture Design

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This paper presents a concise mix design process using a geotechnical approach to produce RCC mixtures for mass and structural applications. Laboratory compaction tests, using a Kango hammer, were performed on specimens with a predetermined combination of aggregates and cernentious materials, varying the amount of water. 1 he test results...

Spanish Experience in Concrete Pavements on Bridges

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There are more than one hundred and sixty bridges with concrete pavement in Spain. All of them are in motorways with heavy traffic but in very different thermal regions. Three types of bridge concrete pavements are used: monolithic, bonded and unbonded. This paper presents the Spanish experience in concrete pavements...

Applicability of Precast Concrete Pavements with Doweled Joint to Tunnel Road

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Applicability of precast concrete pavement (PRCP) with doweled joints to tunnel roads was investigated. The effects of subbase and dowel bars at transverse joints on the mechanistic behaviors of PRCP were examined. The thermal stresses in PRCP were also discussed. Fatigue and faulting analyses were conducted to compare the fatigue...

Abrasion Resistance of Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC)

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The scope of this work is the behaviour under abrasion of different concrete (RCC) made with limestone, schist and granite aggregates. Binder contents (cement and fly ash) ranging from 90 kg/rn 3 to 190 kg/rn3 were tested. Small concrete slabs 60x60x40 mm were cut from 150000 mm cylinders prepared according...

The Actuality & Prospect of RCCP in China

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The research on RCCP was launched in early 80' in China. The laboratory test started in 1981 followed by the first sectioii of field experimcnt road in 1982. And then extended resmrch was carried out in 1983 and 1984. A few years later in 1988, the research on Cement Concrete...

Study of a Romanian Experimental CRCP Road Section

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The experimental continuously reinforced concrete (C. R. C. P.) road section has been realized in 1975 on a Romanian principal road, in a mountain area. There are presented the design method, the materials, the technology and the behavior after twenty years of traffic.

Reconstruction of Urban Highways

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Due to the ever increasing traffic volumes, the repair of concrete pavements has become one of the most difficult problems. One of the means to help resolve this problem is the use of a high early strength concrete. At the Department of Civil Engineering of the K.U.Leuven a research program...

Elimination of Ruts at Intersections by Means of An Inlay/Overlay Made of Steel Fibre Concrete

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To the North of Gent there is an important harbour and industrial zone. Because of the heavy traffic on the road connecting Gent and Zelzate (R4, section J. Kennedylaan), deep ruts have formed in the asphalt pavement, mainly at the junctions. In order to repair these ruts in a durable...