Economical Design of Prestressed Concrete Pavements

Sargious, Michel; Wang, S. K.

doi:10.15554/pcij.07011971.64.79

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“…Prestressed concrete pavements have been constructed for highways and airfields in Europe and the United States since then [1]. Some basic geometrical and economical designs of prestressed concrete pavement have also been reported [2][3][4]. The benefits of prestressed concrete pavement include improved cracking resistance and reduced slab thickness; while the prestressing increases the cost of the materials and construction, the reduction in slab thickness and transverse joints can compensate some of this cost [1,5,6].…”

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Design and Construction of Oblique Prestressed Concrete Pavement: A Case Study in China

Yan

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Design and Construction of Oblique Prestressed Concrete Pavement: A Case Study in China

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“…The friction between the subbase and concrete slab induces stresses in the concrete slab, with their maximum value near the middle of the slab between the two transverse joints. Frictional stress in concrete can be estimated as follows (2):…”

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Time-Dependent Behavior of Posttensioned Concrete Pavements under Environmental Loading

Choi

Won

2010

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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The performance of cast-in-place posttensioned concrete pavement (PTCP) constructed in 1985 on I-35 in Waco, Texas, has been excellent. Encouraged by the performance of the section, the Texas Department of Transportation began construction of another PTCP project in 2008 on I-35 in Hillsboro. In this study, the time-dependent behavior of PTCP under environmental loading was experimentally investigated and its implications in PTCP design investigated. Concrete strain and slab movement as well as temperature and relative humidity were measured. The effects of such factors as posttensioning (PT) force, friction, curling stress, creep, and shrinkage on the behavior of PTCP were investigated. The stress introduced by longitudinal PT varied along the slab length, with a maximum near the armor joint and a minimum at the center of the slab. The variations were induced by the friction between concrete and subbase. The concrete strain at middepth of the slab under environmental loading was also affected by friction. The concrete thermal strain restrained by friction was larger near the slab center, and the degree of restraint was 20%. The distribution of longitudinal slab movement was nonlinear along with the distance from the slab center, and 13% of free slab movement was restrained at the armor joint. Continued contraction of the concrete slab due to creep and shrinkage was observed, which will result in the opening of joint width. Because creep and shrinkage are long-term effects, slab movement monitoring will continue until their effects become insignificant and the information gained should be used for the design of initial joint width.

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Cross Tensioned Concrete Pavement

Hossain

Hancock

2003

J. Transp. Eng.

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Economical Design of Prestressed Concrete Pavements

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Design and Construction of Oblique Prestressed Concrete Pavement: A Case Study in China

Design and Construction of Oblique Prestressed Concrete Pavement: A Case Study in China

Time-Dependent Behavior of Posttensioned Concrete Pavements under Environmental Loading

Cross Tensioned Concrete Pavement

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