USE OF STEEL NET REINFORCEMENT IN UNBOUND PAVEMENT LAYERS

This paper presents a summary of research work performed in connection with a European Union financed REFLEX project to investigate the use of steel net reinforcement in unbound layers of flexible pavement constructions. The research work has included the monitoring of existing road structures reinforced with steel nets, the construction and monitoring of a test road in Northern Sweden, various types of laboratory tests and a full-scale accelerated loading test performed with the HVS-Nordic testing facility. Generally the effect of reinforcement on the resilient responses of a reinforced pavement structure has been observed to be fairly modest. Meantime, however, the favorable effect of steel net reinforcement in the performance of the pavement structure e.g., in terms of delaying rut development has been observed to be remarkable, typically of the order of 20 to 50%. A physical explanation to this dilemma is suggested in the paper. Furthermore, a directly applicable modeling approach that takes into account the effect of reinforcement in mechanistic pavement analysis is presented. For the covering abstract see ITRD E118503.

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  AA Balkema

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• Authors:
  • KOLISOJA, P
  • ZARGHAMPOUR, H
  • SALMENKAITA, S
• Conference:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE BEARING CAPACITY OF ROADS AND AIRFIELDS, LISBON, PORTUGAL, 24-26 JUNE 2002.
• Publication Date: 2002

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 1031-40
• Serial:
  • Volume: 2

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Base course (Pavements); Bearing capacity; Conferences; Prevention; Reinforcement (Engineering); Reinforcing materials; Road construction; Rutting; Steel; Tests
• Identifier Terms: European Union
• Uncontrolled Terms: Unbound base
• Geographic Terms: Sweden
• ITRD Terms: 3085: Bearing capacity; 8525: Conference; 8303: EU; 9149: Prevention; 3471: Reinforcement (in mater); 3665: Road construction; 3081: Rutting (wheel); 4542: Steel; 8109: Sweden; 6255: Test; 2970: Unbound base
• Subject Areas: Construction; Data and Information Technology; Highways; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00963862
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 90-5809-398-0
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Oct 3 2003 12:00AM