TREATMENTS TO RETEXTURE A WORN CONCRETE SURFACE OF A HIGH- SPEED ROAD

EXPERIMENTS WERE CARRIED OUT ON A SECTION OF THE M.1 MOTORWAY TO DETERMINE THE MOST SUITABLE TREATMENT TO RESTORE ADEQUATE SKIDDING RESISTANCE TO A WORN CONCRETE SURFACE OF A HIGH-SPEED ROAD. MEASUREMENTS MADE DURING THE INITIAL THREE YEARS OF THE EXPERIMENT SHOWED THAT THE TREATMENTS HAD IMPROVED THE SIDEWAY-FORCE COEFFICIENT AT LOW SPEED (50 KM/H) AND THAT ALL THE TREATMENTS MARKEDLY REDUCED THE FALL IN SKIDDING RESISTANCE SHOWN BY THE UNTREATED SURFACE WHEN THE SPEED WAS INCREASED TO 130 KM/H. THE BEST OVERALL RESULTS WERE GIVEN BY A DIAMOND PATTERN OF NARROW GROOVES AND BY TRANSVERSE GROOVES. MEASUREMENTS WILL BE CONTINUED ON THE SECTIONS TO DETERMINE THE LONG-TERM EFFECT OF THE TREATMENTS. /AUTHOR/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Rrl Rept Lr 250, 28 PP
• Corporate Authors:

  Road Research Laboratory /UK

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• Authors:
  • Weller, D E
  • Maynard, D P
• Publication Date: 1969

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Concrete pavements; High speed ground transportation; High speed vehicles; Highways; Pavement grooving; Pavement maintenance; Skid resistance; Speed; Surface treating
• Old TRIS Terms: Grooves
• Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00218504
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 9 1970 12:00AM