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and safety levels for very many years. The Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure and Facilities of the Walloon Region conducted a comparative study of the motorway in 2000 between a continuously reinforced concrete pavement and a bituminous pavement. Very many factors obviously come into play for an objective comparison and they...

There is a trend to work with the influence of roads on the whole society. The quality level, and the initial investment cost, for pavements and road superstructures, should therefore be grounded on Life Cycle Cost analysis (LCC). LCC or Whole Life Costing (WLC), is described in a PIARC document...

Reinforced concrete railway superstructure type (non-ballasted) is becoming more widespread and important in the world, similarly in Turkey. This type can be used both in all of the light rail systems of urban transport and also the high speed rail systems of intercity transport. Although its construction cost is higher,...

An empirical concrete pavement design method, based on mechanistic principles, was developed for use by the general practitioner. It was recognized that the outcome of the design process should not concern only layer characteristics and risk of failure, but also the area of pavement possibly afflicted by a particular mode...

Continuously reinforced concrete pavements (CRCPs), when proper design and construction guidelines are followed, may allow more than thirty million equivalent single axle load application as observed at existing CRCP sections in the United States of America. Otherwise, the CRCP may prematurely fail and require costly maintenance earlier than anticipated. In...

It is known that concrete and flexible pavements are similar each other from the structural view point. Nowadays, especially, because of the innovations in airplane technology, airplane weights have been increased. Therefore airport maintenance has become more important. It is possible to obtain information about structural performance of a pavement...

Axle loads are increasing all over the world including Turkey. Asphalt pavements are not able to carry this heavy traffic safely and economically. Using asphalt pavement for heavy traffic cause early deterioration of the pavement and higher cost of pavement maintenance. As an alternative, concrete pavements may be used instead...

Continuously reinforced concrete pavement (CRCP) structures are becoming more popular for roundabouts due to the durable and sustainable character of this pavement type. This led to a need for practical guidelines, recommendations and standardisation with respect to design, details and the preparation of tender documents. The paper summarises a recent...

Continuously reinforced concrete pavement (CRCP) structures are becoming more popular for high quality transport purposes and long lasting pavement solutions in The Netherlands. This increase raised the demand for practical guidelines, recommendations and standardisation with respect to design, construction details, the preparation of tender documents and construction. Up to now...

Concrete has been used as a construction material for road pavements for many years. Over the last 40 years, the world has seen a major program of motorway and trunk road constructions. The increase in the amount and individual weight of vehicular traffic has made increasing demands on the performance...

The intention of this paper is to shed light on the interaction between road roughness and the resulting road damage caused by static and dynamic wheel forces. For this purpose several trucks have been mathematically modeled as multi-body systems in great detail. The models are based on actual data of...

A comparison of "capital plus maintenance" costs has been made in France using the following methodology: - firstly, a comparison of sections of concrete pavement with conventionally constructed ones of the same age on the same stretch of road, - secondly, a statistical analysis of the performance of the different...