PREFABRICATED HIGHWAYS

TO FACILITATE MORE EFFICIENT AND ECONOMICAL WAYS OF REPARING AND BUILDING ROADS AND BRIDGES IN URBAN AREAS THAT ARE SUBJECT TO BOTH CONSTRUCTION TIME RESTRICTIONS AND HIGH RATES OF CHANGE, SEVERAL NEW METHODS OF CONSTRUCTION ARE DESCRIBED. PRECASE CONCRETE COMPONENTS ARE POST-TENSIONED TOGETHER BY STANDARD OR SPECIAL TEFLON COATED TENDONS. A NUMBER OF HIGHWAY BRIDGES UTILIZING SUCH CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES HAVE ALREADY BEEN BUILT, BUT ONLY A FEW EXPERIMENTAL HIGHWAY PAVEMENTS HAVE BEEN TRIED TO DATE. A NEW TECHNIQUE DESCRIBED BY STITCHING PAVEMENT SLABS TOGETHER WITH CURVED TENDONS SHOULD EXPEDITE THE GREATER USE OF PREFABRICATED ROADWAYS. ALSO MENTIONED ARE NEW METHODS OF USING PREFABRICATED FOOTING AND FOUNDATIONS, PARTICULARLY FOR BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION. /AUTHOR/

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • PROC PAPER 8895
• Authors:
  • Zuk, W
• Publication Date: 1972-5

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 387-94
• Serial:
  • Journal of Transportation Engineering
  • Volume: 98
  • Issue Number: te 2
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0733-947X
  • Serial URL: https://ascelibrary.org/journal/jtepbs

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Highway design; Highways; Precast concrete; Prefabricated structures; Road construction; Urban highways
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00203638
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 9 1972 12:00AM