PERFORMANCE OF A THIRTY-TWO YEAR OLD CONCRETE PAVEMENT. FINAL REPORT

This report reviews pavement performance testing results on an experimental concrete pavement built on Minnesota T.H. 36 in 1958 that contains variations in joint spacing, reinforcement, dowels, and transverse joint fillers. South Dakota Profile Serviceability Rating (PSR), Minnesota Structural Rating (SR), and Concrete Pavement Evaluation System (COPES) surveys conducted in 1990 revealed that the best performing sections were the 15-ft (4.6-m) and the 20-ft (6.2-m) sections with bituminous coated or rust inhibitor painted dowels. The longer 33-ft (10-m) and 65-ft (20-m) sections and the panels with sleeved dowels performed poorly. All transverse joint fillers, which included "Presstite 77" and rubber asphalt Minnesota Spec. 3723, failed within three years. Researchers previously studied the sections from 1959-1969, and this report references several memos and letters on the pavement's performance. The four basic pavement sections include: 15-ft (4.6-m) and 20-ft (6.1-m) unreinforced sections with one undoweled and three different dowel segments, and the 33-ft (10-m) and 65-ft (20-m) reinforced sections with three types of mesh and three different doweled segments.

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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/14721
• Corporate Authors:

  Minnesota Department of Transportation

  Office of Materials, 1400 Gervais Avenue
  Maplewood, MN  United States  55109
• Authors:
  • Beaudry, T M
• Publication Date: 1996-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 43 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Concrete pavements; Condition surveys; Dowels (Fasteners); Evaluation; Experimental roads; Joint fillers; Joints (Engineering); Pavement performance; Pavements; Reinforced concrete pavements; Reinforcement (Engineering); Spacing; Time duration
• Identifier Terms: Minnesota structural rating
• Uncontrolled Terms: Joint spacing; Long term
• Old TRIS Terms: Dowels; Pavement serviceability ratings
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00720175
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: MN/PR-96/01
• Files: NTL, TRIS, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Apr 15 1996 12:00AM