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...
Hard Shoulders on Autobahns
The Road Retreatment Plant Arc 700
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...
Characterization by Means of Some Fracture Mechanics Parameters of the Concrete Pavement of the By-Pass Between Al and A2 Italian Highway
This work reports the results obtained with the three point bend tests (TPBT) carried out on beams made up of the concrete used for the construction of a by-pass highway and, by comparison, of medium (50 N/mm2) and high strength (98 N/mm 2) laboratory concretes. Typical parameters of fracture mechanics,...
Reflective Cracking on Concrete Pavements with Cement Treated Sub-Base
One concrete pavement just built was showing some located transverse cracking. In order to evaluate the cracking cause, longitudinal displacements were measured in some cracks and transverse joints. Results obtained showed that concrete cracking was reflected from cement treated base cracks, and allowed to verify that such phenomena happened in...
Effects of Temperature and Moisture on Concrete Pavements
During hardening concrete pavements do not have a uniform distribution of temperature throughout the thickness. The calculation of tem-perature stresses has to start from the differencebetween the zero-stress-temperature and the actualtemperature. Itisadvantageous if (for example dueto wet-curing) the zero-stress-temperature is lowerat the top than in the middle of the slab....
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...
The Passage of State Roads Through Built-Up Areas. Applications of Concrete Block Pavements
In the eighties, a campaign was set up in Belgium in view of the rearrangement of the state road sections which are passing through built-up areas. These projects were meant to improve the road safety and the viability along these cross town links. Efforts were made to come to a...
Long-Time Observations of Contracfion Joint Opening in Concrete Pavements Measurement and Evaluation
Long-time measurements of contraction joint opening were performed during a 25-year period for several pavement systems [concrete full depth construction, concrete pavement on a temperature insulated, cement treated (CTS) and bituminous subbase]. The data obtained were analyzed and the mean opening of the joints, the standard deviation, the coefficient of...
The Design and Maintenance of Contraction Joints Behaviour of the Namur Test Road After 10 Years of Traffic
This article describes the behaviour after 10 years of service of the test sections constructed in 1979 on State road N 4 in the Belgian province of Namur, The object of this experiment, is to compare various types of contraction joint on the same site and under the same conditions...
Ways of Reducing Tire-Noise on Concrete Pavements Experience and Tests in Austria
Tire-road noise can be reduced considerably by providing a suitable surface geometry. According to the new Austrian specifications pa-vers must be fitted with a longitudinal smootherto eliminate any transverse waves produced by thebeams of the paver. In order to obtain a noise-reducing surface a longitudinal texture (e.g.. a burlap drag)...
Design Charts For Small Element Precast Concrete Slab Pavements Using a Combined Finite Element Westergaard Approach
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...
The Use of 130 MPa Concrete in the Rehabilitation of an Old Pavement
lIn Norway, most every car is equipped with tires having small steel studs to improve the friction between the tire and road during the winter season. These studded tires have an enormous wearing effect on ordinary asphalt pavement.