NEW JERSEY COMPOSITE PAVEMENT PROJECT

THIS PAPER REPORTS ON THE 8-YEAR PERFORMANCE OF A 1,500-FT SECTION OF COMPOSITE PAVEMENT CONSTRUCTED IN 1963 ON NJ-3, A MAJOR ROUTE CARRYING APPROXIMATELY 88,780 VEHICLES DAILY: OF THOSE VEHICLES, 14.6 PERCENT ARE TRUCKS. THE PAVEMENT CONSISTED OF A 5-COMPONENT SYSTEM INVOLVING A 6-IN. CRUSHED STONE SUBBASE, AN 8-IN. PLAIN CONCRETE BASE, A 3-IN. LAYER OF DENSELY GRADED CRUSHED STONE, A 5-IN. LAYER OF DRY- BOUND MACADAM, AND A 3.5-IN. SURFACE OF BITUMINOUS CONCRETE. THE PAVEMENT WAS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE LONG-TERM SERVICEABILITY AND TO REQUIRE AN ABSOLUTE MINIMUM OF MAINTENANCE, DESPITE THE UNSTABLE NATURE OF THE TERRAIN AND VERY HEAVY TRAFFIC, COST WAS ABOUT 15 PERCENT HIGHER THAN THAT OF NEW JERSEY'S STANDARD DESIGN OF REINFORCED CONCRETE PAVEMENT BUT IS EXPECTED TO BE OFFSET BY THE ESTIMATED 23 PERCENT LONGER SERVICE LIFE. PERFORMANCE DATA FROM BENKELMAN BEAM DEFLECTIONS, RUT DEPTHS, ROUGHOMETER MEASUREMENTS, CROSS-SECTIONAL AND PROFILE MEASUREMENTS, AND CONDITION SURVEYS SHOW THAT THE COMPOSITE PAVEMENT HAS PERFORMED AS DESIGNED WITH MINIMAL MAINTENANCE.

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  • http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/hrr/1973/434/434-002.pdf
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Sponsored by Committee on Design of Composite Pavements and Structural Overlays. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
• Authors:
  • Baker, Robert F
• Conference:
  • 52nd Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
  • Date: 1973-1-22 to 1973-1-26
• Publication Date: 1973

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 16-23
• Monograph Title: Performance of composite pavement, overlays, and shoulders
• Serial:
  • Highway Research Record
  • Issue Number: 434
  • Publisher: Highway Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Composite pavements; Costs; Pavement maintenance; Pavement performance; Service life; Traffic volume
• Geographic Terms: New Jersey
• Subject Areas: Design; Finance; Highways; Pavements;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00207595
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309021642
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Dec 22 1973 12:00AM