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A review on pavement porous concrete using recycled waste materials

  • Toghroli, Ali;Shariati, Mahdi;Sajedi, Fathollah;Ibrahim, Zainah;Koting, Suhana;Mohamad, Edy Tonnizam;Khorami, Majid
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.433-440
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    • 2018
  • Pavements porous concrete is a noble structure design in the urban management development generally enabling water to be permeated within its structure. It has also capable in the same time to cater dynamic loading. During the technology development, the quality and quantity of waste materials have led to a waste disposal crisis. Using recycled materials (secondary) instead of virgin ones (primary) have reduced landfill pressure and extraction demanding. This study has reviewed the waste materials (Recycled crushed glass (RCG), Steel slag, Steel fiber, Tires, Plastics, Recycled asphalt) used in the pavement porous concretes and report their respective mechanical, durability and permeability functions. Waste material usage in the partial cement replacement will cause the concrete production cost to be reduced; also, the concretes' mechanical features have slightly affected to eliminate the disposal waste materials defects and to use cement in Portland cement (PC) production. While the cement has been replaced by different industrial wastes, the compressive strength, flexural strength, split tensile strength and different PC permeability mixes have depended on the waste materials' type applied in PC production.

Evaluation of Surface Temperature Variation and Heat Exchange Rate of Concrete Road Pavement with Buried Circulating Water Piping (열매체 순환수 배관이 매설된 콘크리트 도로 포장체의 표면 온도 변화와 방열량 평가)

  • Byonghu Sohn;Yongki Kim
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Geothermal and Hydrothermal Energy
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2023
  • Hydronic heated road pavement (HHP) systems have been well established and documented to provide road safety in winter season over the past two decades. However, most of the systems run on asphalt, only a few are tested with concrete, and there rarely is a comparison between those two common road materials in their performance. The aim of this study is to investigate the thermal performance of the concrete HHP systems, including surface temperature variations of experimental pavements in winter season. For preliminary study a small-scale experimental system was installed to evaluate the heat transfer characteristics of the concrete HHP in the test field. The system consists of 3 concrete slabs made of 1 m in width, 1 m in length, and 0.25 m in height. In these slabs, circulating water piping was embedded with different pipe depths of 0.08 m (Case A), 0.12 m (Case B), and 0.20 m (Case C) and same horizontal space of 0.16 m. Heating performance in winter season was tested with different inlet temperatures of 25℃, 30℃, 35℃ and 40℃ during the entire measurement period. Overall, the surface temperature of the concrete HHPs remained above 3℃ in all experimental conditions applied in this study. The results of the surface temperature measurement with respect to the pipe depth showed that Case B was the highest among the three cases. However, the closer the circulating water pipe was to the pavement surface, the greater the heat exchange rate. This results is considered that the heat is continuously accumulated inside the pavements and then the temperature inside the pavements increases, while the amount of heat dissipation decreases as the temperature difference between the inlet and outlet of circulating water decreases. In this preliminary test the applicability of the concrete HHP on road deicing was confirmed. Finally, the results can be used as a basis for studying the effects of various variables on road pavements through numerical analysis and for conducting large-scale empirical experiments.

Comparison of the Pavement Performance for Concrete Overlay and Asphalt Overlay on Aged Cement Concrete Pavement (노후화된 시멘트 콘크리트 포장에 대한 콘크리트 및 아스팔트 덧씌우기의 포장성능 비교)

  • Lee, Seung-Woo;Son, Hyeon-Jang
    • International Journal of Highway Engineering
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.31-39
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    • 2011
  • More than sixty percentage of highway in South Korea were constructed by concrete pavements and more than half of the concrete pavements were twenty years or older. Maintenance and rehabilitation of aged cement concrete pavements required early transportation opening due to difficulty of preparing bypass roads, given South Korea's transportation condition and so far, mostly asphalt concrete overlay has been used. However, asphalt concrete pavement maintenance and rehabilitation is costly because of early damage and at the same time, it causes inconvenience to the road users. Recently, as an effective method of rehabilitation for aged cement concrete pavement, bonded concrete overlay is being attempted. Therefore, utilizing various data on year-by-year basis is needed to rationally analyze of the damage on asphalt concrete overlay and bonded concrete overlay is necessary. However, in South Korea database of Serviceability damage on asphalt concrete overlay and bonded concrete overlay does not exist. In this research, performance is evaluated by the LTPP (Long Term Pavement Performance) Data of U.S.A, which accumulated various damage data of asphalt concrete overlay and bonded concrete overlay. However, the pattern distress of asphalt concrete overlay and bonded concrete overlay are different. Therefore, the pavement distress data of each section is collected into database and distress are calculated PCI(Pavement Condition Index) in order to compare life of asphalt concrete overlay and bonded concrete overlay.

Biocementation of Concrete Pavements Using Microbially Induced Calcite Precipitation

  • Jeong, Jin-Hoon;Jo, Yoon-Soo;Park, Chang-Seon;Kang, Chang-Ho;So, Jae-Seong
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.27 no.7
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    • pp.1331-1335
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    • 2017
  • In this study, the feasibility of introducing calcite-forming bacteria into concrete pavements to improve their mechanical performance was investigated. Lysinibacillus sphaericus WJ-8, which was isolated in a previous study and is capable of exhibiting high urease activity and calcite production, was used. When analyzed via scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction, WJ-8 showed a significant amount of calcite precipitation. The compressive strength of cement mortar mixed with WJ-8 cells and nutrient medium (urea with calcium lactate) increased by 10% compared with that of the controls. Energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy analyses confirmed that the increase in strength was due to the calcite formed by the WJ-8 cells.

Evaluating a Load Limit on Heavy Vehicles in Flexible Pavements (아스팔트 포장구조체에 대한 중차량 제한하중 평가)

  • Park, Seong-Wan;Hwang, Jung Joon
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.30 no.1D
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    • pp.53-60
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    • 2010
  • The objective of this paper is to evaluate a performance-based load zoning procedure in flexible pavements. Long-term performance in flexible pavements will be evaluated using VESYS type rutting model and Miner s theory on fatigue cracking. Permanent deformation properties such as alpha and gnu, and fatigue cracking properties such as k1 and k2 in asphalt concrete were used respectively. The data from the literatures were also used in predicting performance in flexible pavements for evaluating load restrictions as well as parametric study. Finally, a performance-based load zoning procedure and a simple load limit procedure for load zoning were assessed.

Detecting Image of Void Shapes in Concrete Using Simulation Analysis Model of Reflection Wave of Electromagnetic Radar (전자파 레이더 모의해석에 의한 콘크리트 내부 공동형상별 화상검출 특성)

  • Park, Seok-Kyun
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.229-232
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    • 2005
  • More than effectively judging the existence of voids behind concrete tunnel linings or under concrete pavements, this research aims to develop the analysis algorithm of radar capable of estimation of the shape of specific voids. To detect or estimate void shapes in non-reinforced concrete, the simulation analysis model of transmission and reflection wave of electromagnetic radar is used. This radar simulation model is carried out with various void shapes. As the results, a proposed method in this study has a possibility of detecting or estimating void shapes with good accuracy.

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Structural Behavior and Distress of Asphalt Pavement on Concrete Bridge Decks (콘크리트 교면 아스팔트포장의 구조적 거동 및 파손)

  • Park, Seong-Wan;Lee, Hyun-Jong;Lee, Wan-Hoon
    • International Journal of Highway Engineering
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    • v.6 no.1 s.19
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    • pp.13-23
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    • 2004
  • This paper presents the results of a study that was performed to evaluate structural behaviors and related distress of asphalt pavements on concrete bridge deck based on the visual inspection and 3-dimensional finite element analysis. As a result, three most failure types were found such as permanent deformation, potholes, and fatigue crackings. In addition, the failure mechanisms of different types of concrete bridge deck were investigated. An increase in fatigue of asphalt pavements on concrete bridge deck was observed and confirmed by the results from the visual inspections. In consequence, the aging and stripping of asphalt surfacing materials are relatively dominant factors on fatigue rather than traffic loadings.

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Experimental Study on Fatigue Strength of Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavements with Initial Transverse Cracks (초기균열간격에 따른 연속철근콘크리트 포장의 피로강도에 대한 실험적 연구)

  • Park, Jong-Sup
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.1173-1178
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    • 2007
  • A laboratory investigation is conducted to characterize and quantity fatigue life of continuously reinforced concrete pavement with initial cracks. Four specimens scaled were made based on results of finite-element analyses and stress-strain curve comparisons. Static tests were firstly performed to obtain magnitudes of static failure loads and to predict crack patterns before fatigue tests. The fatigue lives measured in the study were compared based on the initial crack spacing. The comparison indicates that the fatigue lives of most specimens increases with increasing the initial crack spacing. The results obtained in the study can be used for maintenance and retrofit of the continuously reinforced concrete pavements.

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