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
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
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
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....
The Influence of Dowel Deviation on Concrete Paving Slabs
A series of tests have been carried out to figure out the in-fluence of deviation of the dowels on concrete paving slabdowels with respect to slab movements through shrinking andthermal variations.The stresses produced in the slabs for various deviations withrespect to the theoretical position and according to the systemchosen to...
Design of Sand-Cement Base Courses Using Fracture Mechanics Principles
Sand-cement base courses exhibit shrinkage and fatigue crack-ing. Both types of cracks tend to reflect through the asphaltictop layers. An analysis has been made to determine pavementlife, which is defmed as the number of cycles until cracks arevisible at the pavement surface, by taking into account fatiguecrack initiation, propagation and...
Developments in Noise Redution of Concrete Roads in the Netherlands
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
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....
Data Base and Pavement Condition Surveys of Concrete Roads in the Shrp Long-Term Pavement Performance Study
The Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) research program, a component of the Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP), was launched in 1987 as a $50 million effort to collect field observations of both in-service and new, specially constructed test sections throughout North America. This paper deals primarily with the pavement distress evaluation...
Continuously Reinforced Concrete Overlay Worksites. Planning on Motorways in Service. High Output Production Equipment
Since 1983, most of the work sites in France using Continuously Reinforced Concrete have been for overlaying work on existing motorways in service. As regards methods and equipment, this has necessitated high output production facilities to allow work to be complete as quickly as possible so as to minimize inconvenience...
Behaviour of Rolled Compacted Concrete Results of Measurements in Experimental Pavements
Precise measurements on experimental ruil scale pavements demonstrate that curling and warping phenomena arc affecting similarly the RCC and the conventional PCC pavements of equivalent designs: with «light differences in deflections and joint openings mainly attributed to different adherence at the slab-base interface. After IS months exposed to drying shrinkage....
Considerations in the Design of Jointed Concrete Pavements
This paper provides considerations, recommendations, and guidelines on the design of jointed concrete pavements. These are based on the field performance results of 95 inservice con-crete pavement sections, on the results of a literature review,and on the experience of the authors. Key considerations in thedesign of concrete pavements are highlighted...