THE DESIGN OF INTERLOCKING CONCRETE BLOCK PAVEMENTS

This paper establishes a hierarchy of design methods for interlocking concrete block pavements. In descending order of versatility this hierarchy comprises design for specified levels of performance, design for average conditions, and design by the use of materials equivalencies. The design methods are each founded on an extensive series of full- scale tests of block pavements layed using normal construction methods and then subjects to simulated trafficking. From these tests it was possible to derive mathematical models which approximate thickness of the paving blocks and basecourses, and such performance attributes as rutting and stress distribution. Based on these models the hierarchy of design alternatives were established. The paper acknowledges that the predictions of the design methods have not been compared with performance of actual pavements subjected to traffic, but are based entirely on the observed response of actual block pavements. (a). (TRRL)

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  • Papers presented at the Workshop on Interlocking Concrete Block Pavements, Melbourne, October 1978.
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  Melbourne, Victoria  Australia 
• Authors:
  • SHACKEL, B
• Conference:
  • Australian Road Research Board Conference Proc
• Publication Date: 1979-7

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 53-70
• Serial:
  • Issue Number: 90

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Base course (Pavements); Calculation; Charts; Concrete; Concrete blocks; Concrete pavements; Conferences; Deformation; Deformation curve; Design; Design methods; Loading and unloading; Mathematical models; Methodology; Pavement design; Pavements; Paving stones; Repeated loads; Ruts (Pavements); Rutting; Simulation; Thickness; Truck loading facilities
• Uncontrolled Terms: Design criteria; Pavement thickness; Rut
• Old TRIS Terms: Interlocking; Tracking (Wheel)
• ITRD Terms: 2990: Basecourse; 6464: Calculation; 6486: Chart; 4755: Concrete; 8525: Conference; 5595: Deformation; 9011: Design (overall design); 9102: Method; 5588: Repetitive loading; 3081: Rutting (wheel); 4508: Sett (stone); 9103: Simulation; 5933: Thickness
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Materials; Pavements; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I32: Concrete; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

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• Accession Number: 00309631
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• ISBN: 0 86910 049 1
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Oct 8 1980 12:00AM