CONCRETE ROAD BUILDING - DESIGNS AND TECHNIQUES

A number of different designs can be used for concrete pavement on various highway systems. These include plain or unreinforced concrete with or without dowels, depending on local preference and the volume of traffic and types of subbase used under the concrete pavement. Conventionally reinforced pavements are those with a layer of distributed steel, usually prefabricated wire mesh. Dowels are used at the joints. Joint spacing is usually two to three times that of unreinforced pavement. Finally, there is continuously reinforced concrete pavement (CRCP), which has no transverse joints but a large amount of reinforcing steel in the longitudinal direction.

• Corporate Authors:

  Donnelley (Reuben H) Corporation

  466 Lexington Avenue
  New York, NY  United States  10017
• Publication Date: 1984-6

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 29
• Serial:
  • World Construction
  • Volume: 37
  • Issue Number: 6
  • Publisher: Donnelley (Reuben H) Corporation

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Concrete; Concrete pavements; Construction; Continuously reinforced concrete pavements; Dowels; Economic efficiency; Highways; Joints; Load transfer; Material reinforcement; Pavement design; Pavements; Paving; Reinforced concrete; Spacing; Transverse joints
• Uncontrolled Terms: Efficiency; Joint spacing
• Old TRIS Terms: Cement-stabilized granular bases; Highway systems; Joint
• Subject Areas: Construction; Design; Economics; Highways; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00391760
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 30 1985 12:00AM