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Title: MONITORING OF EUROPEAN CONCRETE PAVEMENTS
Accession Number: 00711785
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: As part of the European Concrete Pavement Evaluation System (COPES) program, 77 concrete pavement sections from France, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Belgium are being monitored and the data evaluated with the objective of providing continual improvements to the design, construction, and maintenance of concrete pavements. An overview of the data collected under the European COPES program is presented, and a general look at overall performance trends is provided. The European sections are all characteristic of the wet-freeze environmental region. Because of higher legal axle weights and longer design periods, European pavements are often exposed to many more equivalent-single-axle-load applications than pavements in the United States. Of the sections evaluated, the most common pavement type is jointed plain concrete pavement. Extensive use of stabilized bases, positive drainage features, and dowel bars is also evident. A qualitative analysis was conducted using present serviceability rating (PSR), age, and traffic as the principal parameters. The use of lean concrete bases and incorporation of a greater number of modernity elements (e.g., dowel bars and positive drainage) were found to improve the performance of the sections. Models predicting the PSR of the pavement sections were also developed.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1478, Concrete and Concrete Pavement Construction. 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 Title: Monograph Accession #: 01396806
Language: English
Authors: Wade, Monty JSmith, Kurt DYu, H ThomasDarter, Michael IPagination: p. 90-99
Publication Date: 1995
Serial: Features: Figures
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TRT Terms:
Age; Axle load force; Base course (Pavements); Climate; Concrete pavements; Dowels (Fasteners); Drainage; Equivalent single axle loads; Evaluation; Lean concrete; Mathematical models; Monitoring; Pavement performance; Pavements; Stabilized materials; Traffic equivalence factor; Traffic loads; Trend (Statistics)
Geographic Terms: Old TRIS Terms: Subject Areas: Design; Freight Transportation; Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Sep 19 1995 12:00AM
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