This paper describes a method developed by the Belgian Road Research Centre for the design of cement concrete pavements and overlays. The object of this method is to avoid fatigue cracking of the surfacing (or overlay) and excessive permanent deformation of the subgrade soil. It results from the application of...
Lean Concrete Hard Shoulders Alongside Continuous Reinforced Concrete Overlays
Today, the great majority of Emergency Hard shoulders on Continuous Reinforced Concrete Pavement Motorways of the French network are build with full thickness lean concrete. The principle of this process (background, drainage, laying, seals, surface treatment, concrete formulas) are described below.
Materials Used in the Experimental Field in La Guardia Toledo For Marking Roads in Concrete Pavements
lith the aim to verify the suitability of the different materials sed in marking roads for concrete pavements, more than 30 ommercial products were tested on the experimental field. Iaterials were of different nature: based on alkyd resins, vinyl .sins, alkyd-chlorinated rubber, chlorinated rubber, acrylic sins, etc. efore the application,...
Current Trends and Criteria For the Selection of Materials For Concrete Pavements
The object of this articleisto evaluate the influence of materials used in the construction of rigid pavements, and of the method of placing the con-crete on the final pavement quality.Using the results of laboratory tests and experi-ments taken from the available literature, the ut-most attention must be paid to the...
A Project of Concrete Cycle Tracks in the Region of Hasselt
In spite of numerous cyclists (3.5 millions), until the seventies, the emphasis was in particular on the construction of motor roads and motorways. The cyclist was fairly vulnerable in this environment. From the eighties onward, a new vision appeared in the Flemish region: in and around conurbations, cycle track plans...
The Asturias Motorway Balance of Its First 15 Years Under Traffic
The Asturias motorway, called «y» -asturiana, links the three most important cities in Asturias. It has 43 km of continuously reinforced concrete pavement and was built during 1974and 1975.The behaviour of the motorway up to now has been very good in spite of the rainy weather and the unfavourable geology....
Continously Reinforced Concrete Overlay on Highway E 40 Near Liege Belgium
During the last years, many CRCP overlays have been made in Belgium. One of them has been laid in 1988 on highway E 40 in the province of Liège (8,250 km). The paper gives the reasons of the choice of CRCP for the renewal of the highway and describes the...
Roller-Compacted Concrete as a Road Building Material in South Africa
Roller-compacted concrete (ReC) offers a solution to the vast number of good quality lowvolume roads which will have to be provided in the near future to accommodate South Africa's rapidly expanding rural road needs. The research effort presented in this paper involved a laboratory study and the construction and accelerated...
Hard Shoulders on Autobahns
Hard shoulders provide space for vehicles to stop in an emergency. They additionally provide space to function as traffic lane to keep traffic moving in the customary number of lanes if part of the carriageways is closed for repair measures. In the case of concrete pavements, the structural design and...
A Contractors View of Concrete Pavements in the Expanding Uk Market Place with Particular Reference to Continuously Reinforced Concrete Road Base
The paper reviews the reasons for continuously reinforced pavement design, and the economics of the choice of paving method. The current UK specification, its limitations and the potential va-riance with European and American specificationsare considered with its effect on the historic UKmarket, together with an opinion of the futuremarket.For the...
Low-Noise Surfacing on Concrete Roads
he Utrecht-Amersfoort motorway (A28) was constructed with onreinforced, lightly brushed cement concrete with dowels. r1easurements taken in 1987 indicated that the level of noise nconvenience to the surrounding area exceeded the legally per-ritted standard. In 1988 a 3,500 m stretch of the road was firstround until it was even, then...
The Chemical Characterization of Admixtures For Cement Concrete
Although the Belgian standards provide for quality control of idrnixtures for cement concrete, it is interesting to complement his information by a more thorough chemical identification. this makes it possible to increase the economic advantages vhich result from their use. nfrared spectrographic investigation, which enables the ategory of basic chemical...