Effect of Dowel Bar on the transverse joint at the cement concrete pavement by model test

모형실험에 의한 강성포장체 가로줄눈에 다우웰바가 미치는 영향

The use of concrete pavements is increasing by virtue of durability and excellent load resisting capacity. But cracks and demage in concrete pavements may be occurred by continuous reciclic load, as time goes by. Therefore, transverser contraction joints are constructed in concrete pavements to relieve tensile stresses, and when properly spaced they control the location of transverse cracks.