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Time-Dependent Behaviour of Roller Compacted Concrete Pavements

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Roller compacted concrete pavements (RCCP) have been increasingly constructed in many places in Japan. However, the behaviour of RCCP in the areas of joints and cracked sections has not been completely cleared. In order to establish a rational thickness design of RCCP and to study long-term behaviour of RCCP and...

The New Spanish Standard on Pavement Design

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The General Highway Plan (1984-1991) currently under execution has prompted an overall update of the specifications, in order to take into account the past experience, the new materials and the traffic evolution since 1975. In general, internally vibrated portland cement concrete pavements (PCCP) for heavy traffic have transverse joints every...

Aspects of Mechanistic Analysis of Lightly Cementitious Pavement Materials

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Inthispaper compressionfailureasa resultof traffic loading in lightly cementitious pavement ma-terials is discussed. The investigation was donewith the aid of mechanistic analysis, and includesboth surface and depth deflection measurementson an actual pavement from which linear elasticmoduli values were backcaIculated. This wasdone to evaluate the «actual» stresses between therelatively thin surfacing and...

Road Surfaces Roughness by Shotblasting

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According to the findings made on French road network about .helow skidding resistance, GAILLEDRAT Pére & Fils com-rany developed a new surface treatment concept: THE SUR-:;'ACESHOTBLASTING.l'his technique which allows to treat most of the slippery road.urface problems on asphalt or concrete pavements. permits toncrease the surface roughness "as requested" and...

Design Charts For Small Element Precast Concrete Slab Pavements Using a Combined Finite Element Westergaard Approach

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Small element precast concrete slab pavements through their use in urban areas where vehicular over-run is predominant have suffered severe failures which incurred a substantial public expenditure for their maintenance in the UK. This has created a need for the development of a rational design method that would lead to...

Evaluation of Existing Pavements and Conçrete Overlay Design in the Netherlands

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Working Committee «Overlay in concrete» is founded to create a manual containing practical methods for designing and building concrete overlays for road and airport pavements for Dutch conditions. Results of the Working Committee activities are presented in this paper. A method to determine the bearing capacity of existing pavements is...

Practical Rehabilitation Options For an Aar Affected Jointed Concrete Pavement

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As a result of fine cracks that initiated in the vicinity of the joints of an unreinforced jointed concrete pavement, structural failures rapidly developed under traffic. Structural failures manifested as punch outs where severe pumping at wider cracks occured and it was clear that only reconstruction or overlaying could be...

Interaction Between Mix Design Construction and Properties For RCCP

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When roller-compacted concrete pavements (ReePi :11' u-cd ill Sweden, they are always used as a wear cour-e. Evpenenee shows that RCCP which have been laid meet the functional requirements. Carefully executed quality control is important for the results. Consequently two new lest methods. the Kango (cube) and the RA methods....

Moisture Effects on the Bahaviour of PCC Pavements

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Results of immersion-drying laboratory lest on pavement con-crete pieces show that tbe deformations produced by internalmoisture variations are as important as those produced bytemperature changes. Indirect measurements of internal mois-ture in actual pavements demonstrate the predominant existenceof a moisture differential between the slab surface and bottom.The resulting upward warping in...

The Road Retreatment Plant Arc 700

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The retreatment of old cement pavement is an old technique hat needed rustic equipment coming from agricultural equip-nent or very often meant for the stabilisation in place of fine.oils.faking into account the scatter of measuring out of Portland:ement, the lack of power and efficiency of the mixing equip-nent, this technique...

Developments in Noise Redution of Concrete Roads in the Netherlands

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In the Netherlands experiments have been performed recently :onceming noise reduction on concrete roads. Three pos-.ibilities are being investigated:I. Top layer of no-fines porous concrete.~. Surface of washed dense concrete.. Dense concrete with fine-grained epoxy surface treatment. noise emission level slightly higher than on porous asphalt,iut much less than on...

The Design of Concrete Block Pavements For Urban Roads

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This design method for concrete block road pavements applies to block pavements (under normal road traffic), consisting of rectangular paving blocks (thickness ~ 80 mm) in herringbone bond, 50 mm crushed sand bedding layer, eventually an unbound base, and a sand sub-base. The design criterion for such pavements is rutting....