Design

Urban roadways and public spaces are major fields of application for road concrete in France. Specialised contracting firms have gradually refined the finishes, skills and techniques to provide an extensive range of decorative concrete models. A collaborative process known as VECU (French acronym for roadways, public spaces and urban development...

New legislation for improving accessibility to buses by people and especially disabled people led to the modification of bus platforms and particularly the kerbs at these platforms. Buses should be able to approach quite close to these platforms. This depends on the design of the bus stop area. The dimensions...

There is significant uncertainty and variation in the environmental life cycle assessment of pavements. Uncertainty and scenario variation should be sufficiently accounted in the comparative life cycle assessment in order to increase the confidence on decisions regarding the environmental implications of alternative pavement systems. In this paper we first present...

The paper illustrates, on the grounds of Poland’s case, the concrete roads network development in a jurisdiction dominated by asphalt roads. The author reviews typical drawbacks apparent when promoting concrete roads, and identifies several most arresting phenomena that have led to the current technological stalemate. The goal of the paper...

Many concrete pavement mixtures in the US are proportioned based on recipes that have been used before, or on prescriptive specifications. As budgets grow tighter and increasing attention is being paid to sustainability metrics, greater attention is beginning to be focused on making mixtures that are more efficient in their...

The quality of sand influences in every way the quality of concrete and affects, among others, the workability, the durability as well as the mechanical strength of concrete. It is acknowledged that a sand of good quality to be used in concrete pavements must contain few fine grains and be...

In this research the influence of sand grading on the air void system in mortar is determined. Three sand grading types are defined: sand “low”, sand “mean” and sand “high”. The difference is the amount of fines, < 250 ?m, (low, mean and high amount of fines) in the sand....

Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavements (CRCP) are designed in such a way that the longitudinal reinforcement limits the widths of the transverse cracks in the pavement in order to prevent the water, chemicals and deicing salts from penetrating into the pavement. Self-Consolidating Concrete (SCC) is a new and innovative concrete type,...

The curling behavior of the continuously reinforced concrete pavement (CRCP) under environmental loads was analyzed by measuring vertical displacements at a number of different longitudinal and transverse locations, and the relationship between the surface smoothness and curling behavior was investigated. Two different crack spacings were selected and at each discrete...

A 21 km long motorway is planned to be constructed through the western suburban of Stockholm. The motorway will mainly be localized in tunnels with a total length of 18 km. The intention is that the tunnel pavement shall be constructed as a jointed plain concrete pavement (JPCP) resting on...

Within the frame of a French collaborative research program started in 2007, private companies, a public research laboratory and a rail network owner have jointly developed a new ballastless track structure (NBT) based on independent concrete slabs. This structure is dedicated to both very high speed operations and mixed passenger/freight...

For proper joint design, slabs size and slab thickness of concrete industrial floors, as well as other structures, it is necessary not only to know the final shrinkage of the concrete, but also the evolution over time for both long term and early shrinkage, and the relationship between these properties...