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Title:

USE OF WASTE AND BY-PRODUCTS IN HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION

Accession Number:

00607750

Record Type:

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/0309050642

Abstract:

The technologies for using many waste materials including industrial, domestic, and mining/metallurgical wastes were developed by the Federal Highway Administration during the 1970s. Studies on fly ash, bottom ash, incinerator residue, sulfate wastes, digested sewage sludge, coal mine refuse, waste rubber, and cement manufacturing wastes have been completed. Materials investigated were stabilized with various binders including lime, lime-fly ash, asphalt cement, and portland cement. Both laboratory evaluations and field tests were performed. Many of the systems evaluated developed strength and other physical properties adequate for use in embankments, subbases, and bases. Some materials (e.g., fused incinerator residue) were technically adequate for use in bituminous concrete-wearing surfaces. While the emphasis of the research was on engineering behavior, assessments of economic and environmental factors were made in some cases. Information generated should be of interest and of use today when more and more emphasis is being placed on saving the environment from further desecration.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1288, Geotechnical Engineering 1990. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved

Monograph Accession #:

01411083

Authors:

Ormsby, W C
Fohs, D G

Pagination:

p. 47-58

Publication Date:

1990

Serial:

Transportation Research Record

Issue Number: 1288
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

0309050642

Features:

Figures (3) ; Photos (8) ; References (50) ; Tables (7)

Subject Areas:

Economics; Environment; Geotechnology; Highways; Materials; Research; I35: Miscellaneous Materials

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Apr 30 1991 12:00AM

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