JOINT TESTING EXPERIMENTS WITH A THEORY OF LOAD TRANSFER DISTRIBUTION ALONG THE LENGTH OF JOINTS

A METHOD OF TESTING CONCRETE PAVEMENT JOINTS IN SHEAR IS DESCRIBED. THE LOAD DEFLECTION DIAGRAMS INDICATE THAT JOINTS PASS THROUGH THREE STAGES INDUCED BY LOAD, AND THAT THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE SECOND AND THIRD STAGES CONSTITUTES A CRITICAL POINT THAT CAN BE USED AS A CRITERION IN RATING JOINTS. A THEORY IS BRIEFLY DESCRIBED RELATIVE TO THE LOAD DISTRIBUTION ALONG AN ELASTIC JOINT IN AN ELASTIC PAVEMENT RESTING UPON A UNIFORM-ELASTIC SUBGRADE. THE THEORY IS DEVELOPED BY CONSIDERING THE ELASTIC JOINT AND TWO ADJOINING SLABS OF PAVEMENT AS CONDENSED TO ELASTIC BARS ON TWO SEPARATE ELASTIC FOUNDATIONS IN TWO DIFFERENT LEVELS, ONE ABOVE THE OTHER. /AUTHOR/

• Record URL:
  https://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/hrbproceedings/15/15-009.pdf
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Vol 15, pp 147-156, 7 FIG, 3 TAB. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
• Authors:
  • Kushing, J W
  • Fremont, W O
• Discussers:
  • Older, C
• Publication Date: 1936

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Monograph Title: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board Held at Washington, D.C. December 4-6, 1935
• Serial:
  • Highway Research Board Proceedings
  • Volume: 15
  • Publisher: Highway Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Concrete pavements; Deflection; Elasticity (Mechanics); Joints; Load transfer; Loads; Shear strength; Testing
• Old TRIS Terms: Joint
• Subject Areas: Highways; Materials; Pavements;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00207161
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Jun 11 1971 12:00AM