Guide for Concrete Pavement Distress Assessments and Solutions: Identification, Causes, Prevention, and Repair

This guide was developed for transportation agency personnel and consulting engineers who are responsible for managing concrete pavement assets. Managing these assets includes monitoring pavement performance, developing project concepts, developing and administering pavement repair projects, and overseeing system maintenance. Accurately identifying the distress, understanding the cause(s) of the distress and how to prevent it on future projects, and determining the proper repair procedures can be daunting and complicated. Selecting a pavement preservation strategy that does not address the root cause of a distress can result in wasted resources and additional inconvenience to the public. The purpose of this guide is to clearly address these elements in a user-friendly, uncomplicated, and comprehensive manner. This guide incorporates proven and cost-effective solutions into a framework that assists in matching the appropriate solution(s) to a given distress. The chapters in this guide provide a detailed discussion of specific distresses that may need to be addressed. This guide was developed as part of a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) cooperative agreement to support more sustainable concrete pavement technical solutions.

• Record URL:
  https://intrans.iastate.edu/app/uploads/2018/12/concrete_pvmt_distress_assessments_and_solutions_guide_w_cvr.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Iowa State University, Ames

  National Concrete Pavement Technology Center
  2711 S Loop Drive
  Ames, IA  United States  50010

  Federal Highway Administration

  Office of Pavement Technology, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Ayers, Michael
  • Cackler, Tom
  • Fick, Gary
  • Harrington, Dale
  • Schwartz, Doug
  • Smith, Kurt
  • Snyder, Mark B
  • Van Dam, Tom
• Publication Date: 2018-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 498p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Base course (Pavements); Blowup (Pavements); Concrete pavements; Continuously reinforced concrete pavements; Delamination; Guidelines; Pavement cracking; Pavement distress; Pavement maintenance; Spalling; Subgrade (Pavements); Warpage
• Uncontrolled Terms: Bonded concrete overlays; Curling (Pavements); Faulting (Pavements); Unbonded concrete overlays
• Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01690342
• Record Type: Publication
• Contract Numbers: DTFH61-12-H-00010
• Files: TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Dec 30 2018 6:15PM