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Whole Life Costing of Road Pavements The Way Ahead

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This paper considers the role of whole life costing in the management process for the road network and explores the background to current interest in England. It describes the development of the computer model, COMPARE, for assessing the whole life costs of bituminous and concrete pavement options. The key components...

Compressive Stresses in Concrete Pavements and Related Maintenance Problems

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The M20 motorway between Junctions 3 and 5 near Maidstone (UK) is an unreinforced pavement with joint spacings of 5m and 6m, comprising warping joints with contraction joints every 30m. The pavement was constructed at the beginning of the 1 970s. A contract for maintenance between Junctions 4 and 5...

6th International Symposium on Concrete Roads 1990 Madrid Spain

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Session Paper Indexes, Opening Addresses, General Reports, Oral Contributions and Closings from the 6th International Symposium on Concrete Roads 1990 Madrid Spain

Very Thin Surfacings For Improving Skid Resistance of Concrete Pavements

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This paper describes work on the skid resistance properties of some fine aggregates available in Indiana, as an attempt to improve the driving safety characteristics of concrete pavements. In this work the British Polishing Machine and the Portable Skid-Resistance Tester were used for laboratory evaluation of some mortar mixes. Aggregates...

Pavement Rehabilitation. Tools That Work

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A nation's highway system is an investment used to transport manufactured goods and farm products. The challenge in maintaining this transportation system has been devising a cost-effective rehabilitation method as an alternate to the «bandaid » cover up. This paper describes the six steps of concrete pavement restoration plus two...

The Design and Maintenance of Contraction Joints Behaviour of the Namur Test Road After 10 Years of Traffic

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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...

Rapid Rehabilitation Techniques with Cement Concrete_ Applied on Deformed Asphaltic Roads

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On asphaltic roads the so called «wash-boardeffect » in front of traffic lights is a well known phenomenon. Regular reconstruction of these areas places a significant and recurrent burden on road managing authorities. Because of the large volumen of traffic at these intersections repair works also lead to a huge...

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...

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...

Improvement of the Road Surface Evenness of a Concrete Pavement by Grinding

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Diamond grinding of a new concrete pavement surface produced an improvement on the road sur-face evenness which was evaluated in almost twounits in the International Roughness Index scale(mikm). This improvement was achieved mainlybecause of the removal ofroad irregularities withshort and medium wavelengths (0,5m

Performance of Crack & Seat and Saw & Seal Overlays

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Maintenance problems in asphalt concrete overlays over portland cement concrete pavements may result from reflection cracking at the location of working joints and cracks in the underlying slab. Two methods of reflection crack control which have been used by many agencies in the United States within the past ten years...

Resistance of Concrete Safety Barriers and Concrete Road Against the Scaling Action of Deicing Salts

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The paper presents a synthesis of results related to the construc-tion of concrete safety barriers and of a study about the treat-ment of roads in which the strength against deicing salts wastoo low.A survey of the 13 concrete safety barriers after 3 wintersshows that there is a rather good relation...