Performance of Florida's First Whitetopping Project

In 1988, the Florida Department of Transportation constructed the first whitetopping project on US-1, south of Daytona Beach. This was an experimental project constructed on milled asphalt pavement on the southbound side of the four-lane, divided US-1. The 3.1 km (1.9 mi) whitetopping project was designed to evaluate the performance of various thicknesses, joint spacings, doweled and undoweled joints, and standard and special dowel patterns. This summary discusses the design, construction, and overall condition of the project. The primary issues addressed are the performance of the 152-mm (6-in.) whitetopping section relative to the 178-mm (7-in.) and 203-mm (8-in.) sections, the performance of special dowels compared to standard dowels and doweled joints versus undoweled joints, the condition of the bond between the concrete overlay and the asphalt surface, and lessons learned.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • These proceedings contain the synopsis only of this presentation.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Concrete Pavement Association

  5420 Old Orchard Road, Suite A100
  Skokie, IL  United States  60077

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Colorado Department of Transportation

  4201 E Arkansas Avenue
  Denver, CO  United States  80222
• Authors:
  • Armaghani, Jamshid
  • Schmitt, Roger
• Conference:
  • International Conference on Best Practices for Ultrathin and Thin Whitetoppings
  • Location: Denver Colorado, United States
  • Date: 2005-4-12 to 2005-4-15
• Publication Date: 2005-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Photos; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 71-76
• Monograph Title: Proceedings of the International Conference on Best Practices for Ultrathin and Thin Whitetoppings, Denver, Colorado, April 12-15, 2005

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Asphalt pavements; Bonding; Concrete overlays; Dowels (Fasteners); Lessons learned; Pavement design; Pavement joints; Pavement performance; Paving; Spacing; Surface course (Pavements); Thickness; Whitetopping
• Uncontrolled Terms: Patterns
• Geographic Terms: Florida
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01002327
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jul 25 2005 9:36AM