Design of Rigid Pavements. Badweeti Kasinayana

      Аннотация: Rigid Pavements. ... The design of rigid pavement is based on providing a structural cement concrete slab of sufficient strength to resists the loads from traffic. The rigid pavement has rigidity and high modulus of elasticity to distribute the load over a relatively wide area of soil.Effective pavement design is one of the most important aspects of project design. The pavement is the portion of the highway which is most obvious to the motorist. The condition and adequacy of the highway is often judged by the smoothness or roughness of the pavement. Deficient pavement conditions can result in increased user costs and travel delays, braking and fuel consumption, vehicle maintenance repairs and probability of increased crashes.The pavement life is substantially affected by the number of heavy load repetitions applied, such as single, tandem, tridem and quad axle trucks, buses, tractor trailers and equipment. A properly designed pavement structure will take into account the applied loading

Ключевые слова: Rigid pavements, aggregates, CEMENT, ..etc