Materials

The Castilla & Leon Regional Government has built a new road between the towns of Castrofuerte de Campos and Toral de los Guzmanes, located in León Province, in the Northwest part of Spain. It includes a 324m long and 10m wide bridge allowing local traffic to avoid a long detour...

On site pavement recycling with cement is the most sustainable restoration technique, by means of which a degraded pavement is transformed into a consistent and more homogeneous structure, using the road as a source of aggregates. Both bearing capacity and homogeneity are therefore considerably improved. Due to the absence of...

The A76 is the corridor between the Ruhr area (Germany) and Antwerp (Belgium) in the southern part of the Netherlands. It was built in 1985. Because the asphalt pavement failed as a result of a geological fault in the subsurface, a CRCP with a toplayer of porous asphalt was chosen....

The paper reports the results of an experimental study aimed at designing cement bound granular mixtures for pavement foundations, made exclusively with marginal materials, namely electric arc furnace steel slags, ladle furnace slags, waste foundry sands, glass wastes and coal ashes, used with different proportions. The laboratory investigation has been...

This paper explains the basic concepts, history of studies and the results of the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of the Czech Cement and Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) of the Czech Cement. The Environmental Product Declaration is based on the method of life cycle assessment, which generally evaluates the impact on...

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...

The constantly rising traffic volume is leading to high mechanical stress of the pavements. As a result, the requirements of maintenance, refurbishment and renewal are increasing. In contrast to this, financial resources are decreasing constantly. Moreover, the increasing traffic noise emissions are experienced as growing stress. New, highly sustainable and...

In the last few years at several airports cracking in the internals of concrete gutters has been detected. This was mainly observed, where large airfields (about 60 to 100 m in length) are located next to these drainage lines. In order to reveal the influences on this cracking both laboratory...

A frequently noted disadvantage of cement concrete pavements is repair time. For further application of this technology, it was necessary to eliminate this disadvantage and significantly reduce repair time. Therefore, Skanska developed the "Fast-setting concrete technology". In-house development commenced in 2005. MC Bauchemie, design engineers and investor representatives also participated....

In the last few years cracking in concrete pavements often is attributed to alkali-silica-reaction (ASR). Although this is a very important aspect other impacts such as traffic loads and restraint stresses due to thermal and hygral effects may not be neglected. In many cases interactions between various causes can become...

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...