INVESTIGATIONAL CONCRETE PAVEMENT IN KENTUCKY
SEVEN DIFFERENT EXPERIMENTAL PAVEMENT SECTIONS IN KENTUCKY WERE TESTED AND OBSERVED FOR DATA ON THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES AND CONDITION OF THE PAVEMENT, TRAFFIC, PAVEMENT ELEVATION, AND CLIMATE EFFECTS. JOINT WIDTH MEASUREMENTS WERE TAKEN AND A CRACK SURVEY WAS MADE. TH JOINT WIDTH MEASUREMENTS DID NOT FURNISH SUFFICIENT DATA TO WARRANT DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN THE VARIOUS DESIGNS OF THE EXPERIMENTAL SECTIONS. THE PAVEMENT SHOWED NO APPRECIABLE CHANGE IN ELEVATION OR SURFACE SMOOTHNESS. THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF TILTING OF THE SHORT SLABS, AND NO APPARENT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE DOWELED AND UNDOWELED JOINTS. FROM A STUDY OF THE PAVEMENT ELEVATIONS AND THE CRACK AND CONDITION SURVEYS, IT WAS APPARENT THAT IT WOULD BE SOME TIME BEFORE THE PROJECT WOULD YIELD SUFFICIENT INFORMATION TO ESTABLISH CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE AS TO THE MERITS OF THE VARIOUS DESIGNS INCORPORATED IN ITS CONSTRUCTION. A COMPLETE LAYOUT MAP WAS PREPARED, SHOWING DESIGN DATA, GRADE AND PROFILE, LOCATION OF ALL JOINTS AND CONTROL POINTS, UPON WHICH ALL CRACK AND CONDITION SURVEYS WERE PERIODICALLY PLOTTED.
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Authors:
- Thomas, T R
- Thomas, Thomas R
- Publication Date: 1945-11
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Appendices; Tables;
- Pagination: 7p
- Monograph Title: Investigational concrete pavements progress reports of cooperative research projects on joint spacing
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Serial:
- Highway Research Board Research Reports
- Issue Number: 3B
- Publisher: Highway Research Board
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Concrete pavements; Cracking; Joints; Pavement design; Physical properties; Temperature
- Old TRIS Terms: Joint
- Subject Areas: Highways; Pavements;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00207403
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: May 29 1972 12:00AM