Continuously reinforced concrete pavement is a jointless concrete pavement continuously reinforced throughout the pavement length in the longitudinal direction to control cracking without the aid of weekend transverse joint. CRCP has all the good features of concrete pavement such as ...
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What are Road Humps? Features and Classes
Road Humps are traffic calming devices that help in controlling the speed of the vehicles. The geometry of road humps affects the degree of discomfort experienced by the road users along with the speed controlling effect. Road humps are also ...
Bitumen Extraction Test
Bitumen Extraction Test is used to determine the percentage of bitumen content present in the asphaltic pavement by cold solvent extraction. The properties of flexible pavement such as durability, compatibility, and resistance from defects bleeding, raveling, and aging of flexible pavement ...
Types of Base for Pavement Construction
The construction of the base or sub-base for the pavement construction is dependent on the type of base chosen and the equipment available. In this article, some of the top base and subbase layers used for pavement construction are explained. ...
What are the Components of Highways?
The basic components of the highway are the road width, cross slope, pavement, road margins, traffic separators, and curbs. These geometric elements are designed and influenced by the psychology of the driver, the characteristics of the vehicle and the traffic ...
Road User Characteristics in Traffic Engineering
Road users play an important role in studying traffic engineering. They take up various roles like drivers, pedestrians, cycles etc and assess the conditions in their own unique way. The physical, mental and psychological factors are the main road user ...
Concrete Pavements for Car Parking – Features and Construction
Concrete pavements for car parking are constructed as slab-on-grade structures which are not subjected to heavy traffic and movement as compared to highway concrete pavements. They provide access to both heavy and light delivery vehicles. Concrete pavements as car parking ...
Ballast – Functions and Types
Ballast is a granular material which is placed and packed below and around the railway sleepers. Different types of ballast materials used are broken stone, sand, gravel, moorum, brickbats etc. The main purpose of ballast is to transmit the load ...