MAINTENANCE OF ROAD PAVEMENT

Pavement Evaluation and Pavement Maintenance

IN T R O D U C T IO N T he In d iana D epartm ent of Highways has em barked upon es­ tab lish ing a Pavem ent M anagem ent System (PMS). As a p a rt of this, the Jo in t H ighway R esearch Project has had an on-going research p ro ­ ject for the past several years dealing with m ethods of m easuring pave­ m ent condition in Ind iana . Research at P urdue on the use of roughness m easuring devic...

Management aspects of road pavement rehabilitation

The optimization of a pavement management system necessitates the knowledge on the actual values of pavement condition parameters, actual pavement condition improvement as related to the use of various rehabilitation strategies, and scope of pavement deterioration before and after rehabilitation. The data for six pavement condition parameters (bearing capacity, unevenness, rut depth, macro text...

Toughness Performance of Recycled Aggregates for use in Road Pavement

The policy of driving organization such as Highways Agency is towards the use of performance related specifications. This policy and adoption of European wide aggregate standards on the one hand, and sustainable construction pressures on the other, all strongly emphasize on further need for more developments to specifications and performance assessment methodologies inst...

High Speed Ground Penetrating Radar for Road Pavement and Bridge Structural Inspection and Maintenance

Dynamic Contracting Mechanism for Pavement Maintenance Management

Technological advances, financial possibilities and changes of demands have increasingly affected the pavement maintenance environment for outsourcing in recent years. This induces complexity in the contracting methods of pavement maintenance activities. Despite the fact that current contracting practices on pavement maintenance activities are not sufficient to deal with changes providing the i...