CRCP

Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavement, CRCP is a concrete pavement that is reinforced with steel bars in the direction of traffic. CRCP is a durable pavement solution, advancement to plain concrete pavement. Reinforcement is used in CRCP, to tackle the problem of concrete slab cracking, instead of joints used in conventional...

The Administration of the Ministry of Equipment and Transport of the Walloon Government, together with researchers of the Federation of the Belgian Cement Industry and the Belgian Road Research Centre, put into practice a software program for the structural design of pavements. This program is in use for several years...

Heterogeneous photocatalysis is a rapidly developing field in environmental engineering. It has a great potential to cope with the increasing pollution by traffic. The addition of a photocatalyst to ordinary building materials such as concrete, creates environmental friendly materials by which air pollution or pollution of the surface itself can...

Between September and November 2002, an inlay in continuous reinforced concrete was constructed on the A10 motorway between Groot-Bijgaarden and Ternat. The main components of the section of road are concrete slabs that are overlaid with asphalt surfacing. The work was performed in the shortest possible period, during which the...

The Zuidtangent is a free high quality public transport lane between the city of Haarlem and Schiphol Airpoprt. The full trajectoryi s built in continouusly reinforced concrete. In this paper some design aspects are described. Also the use of concrete as a wearing course on bridges and in tunnels is...

In the Netherlands Rijkswaterstaat is the authority in charge among others of the construction of highways. The department Noord Holland of Rijkswaterstaat has chosen a continuously reinforced concrete roadbase for the construction of the 9 km long new highway section between the cities of Haarlem and Hoofddorp. This choise was...

In June 2000, a new motorway link (E25-E40) was inaugurated in Liège to solve transit and local traffic problems. It serves more than 65,000 vehicles a day in both directions. With multiple technical, environmental and security-related constraints, the 5 kilometres of this infrastructure prefigure numerous works such as bridges, roads,...

How do you undertake the repair of a jointed concrete carriageway on one of the busiest motorways in Europe, particularly when a large proportion of the joints have failed and the slabs are floating on a sea of Gault Clay. With differential settlements so severe that there was genuine concern...

From the point of view of construction performances concrete qualities are well known, durability, high elasticity modulus and workability, for instance, stand for them among many others. But it is also well known that unfortunately, not all of its properties are on the positive side. Cracking, by a variety of...

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...

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...

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...