Lessons from Michigan’s Oldest Concrete Pavement – Still Serving After 100 Years

In 1906, the village of Red Jacket, Michigan (the present day village of Calumet) constructed over 1½ miles of street with a two layer cast in place stamped concrete system known as a granitoid brick block concrete pavement. Today, some of this pavement is still exposed, carrying traffic after 100 years of service. Historical records about the construction and the results of a laboratory analysis of a core specimen from the pavement are presented. The durability of this concrete is remarkable since it was constructed without air entrainment in a severe freeze-thaw climate. The granitoid pavement of Calumet has long outlived the major paving material competitor of its day: creosoted wood block pavement.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from the International Society for Concrete Pavements.
• Corporate Authors:

  International Society for Concrete Pavements

  6305 Oyster Bay Court
  Bridgeville, Pennsylvania  United States  15017
• Authors:
  • Mailloux, Lawrence
  • Peterson, Karl
  • Van Dam, Thomas
  • Ellis, Kyle
• Conference:
  • 9th International Conference on Concrete Pavements
  • Location: San Francisco California, United States
  • Date: 2008-8-17 to 2008-8-21
• Publication Date: 2008

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: CD-ROM; Figures; Photos; References;
• Pagination: pp 346-363
• Monograph Title: 9th International Conference on Concrete Pavements: The Golden Gate to Tomorrow's Concrete Pavements

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Cast in place concrete; Concrete pavements; Durability; Freeze thaw durability; Granite
• Geographic Terms: Calumet (Michigan)
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Materials; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I32: Concrete; I36: Aggregates;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01494898
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 30 2013 12:05PM