PAVEMENT CUTTING TO IMPROVE SKID CHARACTERISTICS OF PAVEMENTS

THE EFFECT WAS DETERMINED OF PAVEMENT TEXTURING ON INCREASING PAVEMENT SKID RESISTANCE AND MAINTANING ADEQUATE SKID RESISTANCE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF VEHICULAR TRAFFIC. A SECONDARY OBJECTIVE WAS EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE TEXTURING PATTERNS AS A WARNING DEVICE TO VEHICLE OPERATORS BY INCREASING VEHICLE VIBRATION AND NOISE. TWO TEXTURE STYLES WERE TESTED AT SEVEN LOCATIONS ON BOTH BITUMINOUS AND PORTLAND CEMENT CONCRETE PAVEMENT. ALL SURFACES WERE TEXTURED BY A SPECIAL DIAMOND STUDDED CUTTER IN A TRANSVERSE PATTERN. THE TWO-YEAR STUDY CONCLUDED THAT TRANSVERSE PAVEMENT TEXTURING WAS ONLY SLIGHTLY EFFECTIVE ON PORTLAND CEMENT CONCRETE AND INEFFECTIVE ON BITUMINOUS CONCRETE PAVEMENTS. FURTHERMORE, THE TEXTURAL PATTERNS UTILIZED WERE NOT SUITABLE AS HIGHWAY WARNING DEVICES. /BPR/

• Corporate Authors:

  Florida Department of Transportation

  Haydon Burns Building, 605 Suwanee Street
  Tallahassee, FL  United States  32301

  Bureau of Public Roads /US

  400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Fuller, S L
• Publication Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bituminous pavements; Concrete pavements; Detectable warning surfaces; Distributions (Statistics); Pavements; Portland cement concrete; Skid resistance; Skidding; Surface course (Pavements); Testing; Texture
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transverse distribution
• Old TRIS Terms: Rough textured warning pavement
• Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00206410
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Bureau of Public Roads /US
• Report/Paper Numbers: M-9-66
• Files: TRIS, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jul 14 1970 12:00AM