CONSOLIDATION PRACTICES IN CONCRETE PAVEMENT CONSTRUCTION

THE INVESTIGATION INVOLVED AN EXAMINATION OF CURRENT TECHNOLOGY ON CONCRETE CONSOLIDATION, CURRENT CONTINUOUSLY REINFORCED PAVEMENT (CRCP) CONSOLIDATION PRACTICES IN TEXAS, AND SELECTED CURRENT CONCRETE PAVEMENT PROBLEMS THROUGH FIELD EXAMINATION AND LABORATORY INVESTIGATION. WHILE THE VAST MAJORITY OF CONCRETE PAVEMENTS ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, INADEQUATE CONCRETE CONSOLIDATION HAS BEEN FOUND IN MANY AREAS OF TEXAS, THE MOST PREVALENT LOCATIONS OCCURRING ADJACENT TO TRANSVERSE CONSTRUCTION JOINTS IN CRCP. WITH PROPER CONSTRUCTION CONTROL, RIGOROUSLY ENFORCED, THESE ISOLATED CONSOLIDATION PROBLEMS CAN BE MINIMIZED. BY INTRODUCING SELECTED CHANGES IN CURRENT PRACTICES, STATEWIDE CONSOLIDATION PROBLEMS CAN BE MINIMIZED. BASED ON THESE CONCLUSIONS, RECOMMENDATIONS WERE MADE WHICH INVOLVED THE INTRODUCTION OF MORE EFFECTIVE CONSTRUCTION CONTROLS AND THE INTRODUCTION OF SELECTED CHANGES IN CURRENT PRACTICES. /AUTHOR/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Res Rept 128-1, 18 PP
• Corporate Authors:

  Texas Transportation Institute

  Texas A&M University System, 1600 E Lamar Boulevard
  Arlington, TX  United States  76011
• Authors:
  • Ledbetter, W B
  • Treybig, H
• Publication Date: 1969-8

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Concrete; Concrete pavements; Consolidations; Continuously reinforced concrete pavements; Recommendations; Transverse joints
• Old TRIS Terms: Concrete technology; Continuous reinforcement
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pavements; Research;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00207079
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: May 25 1970 12:00AM