Concrete Roads

-BASICS
 Different Pavement Types

Concrete Section Asphalt Section

Asphalt Layer
Subbase Base
Subgrade Subbase

Subgrade
Difference Between a Concrete Road (Rigid Pavement)
and Asphalt Road (Flexible Pavement)
How Pavements Carry Loads
3000 kg. 3000 kg.

Concrete Asphalt

pressure < 0.2 MPa

pressure
2.0 MPa

Concretes rigidness spreads the load over a large area

and keeps pressures on the subgrade low (thus it can be thinner)
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The Concrete Pavement Structure

Base (100-250mm thick )

Sub base (100-150)

Subgrade
Basic Components of a Concrete Pavement

Surface smoothness Thickness Design

or rideability
Longitudinal joint
Transverse joint

Surface Texture

Concrete materials

Dowel bars
Tiebars
Subgrade
Subbase or base
 Types of Concrete Pavement

1. Plain Concrete Pavement (PCP)

a) Doweled
b) Undoweled
2. Jointed Reinforced Concrete Pavement
(JRCP)
3. Continuously Reinforced Concrete
Pavement (CRCP)
Types of Concrete Roads

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Plain Concrete Pavement (PCP-Dowelled)

Plan

~ 5.0 m

Profile

or
 PCP - Kulim, Kedah

Year 2001-2003 ..Im very happy with the performance of the Kulim road

2 Lane Single Ir. Dr. Azmi Hassan, Director of Highways MOW
Carriageway

Total Length: 3.2km

Width: 3.5m +3m

Type: PCP

Thickness: 220mm

Joints @ 5m c/c

Grade 40PQC

LMC: 150mm
Success-
Success-no repair
since construction!
(>8 years)

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 PCP - Kaki Bukit Wang Kelian, Perlis
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Year 2006

2 Lane Single
Carriageway

Total Length:
1.6km

Width: 3.5m +2m

Type: PCP

Thickness: 220mm

Joints @ 5m c/c

Grade 40PQC

LMC: 150mm

Success-
Success-no repair
since
construction!

(>6 years)
Jointed Reinforced Concrete Pavement (JRCP)

Plan

~10m-15 m

Profile
 JRCP - Olak Lempit, Banting, Selangor
aka Jalan Seribu Tahun
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Year 1986

1 Lane Single
Carriageway

Total Length: 1.8km

Width: 3.66m

Type: JRCP

Thickness: 220mm

Joints @ 5m c/c

LMC: 150mm

Success--no repair
Success
since construction!

(>25 years) Olak Lempit Rural Concrete Road 1986 (JRCP)
JRCP Seremban R&R

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Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavement
(CRCP)

Plan

0.6-2.0 m

Profile
 CRCP
Typical steel % = 0.6 0.7 %
 CRCP -NKVE
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Year 1990

2 lane 3 carriage way

Total Length: 50km

Width: 3.5m +2m

Type: CRCP (0.7%
steel)

Thickness: 260mm

No Joints

Grade 40PQC

LMC: 150mm

Success-no repair
since
construction!*
(>20 years)

* Some repair due to ground

settlement, not performance
 CRCP - North South Expressway
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Year 1988
North South Expressway is Malaysias

2 lane 3 carriage way
national asset Geoff Ayton, RTA,

Total Length: 186km Australia.

Width: 3.5m +2m

Type: CRCP (0.7%
steel)

Thickness: 230mm

No Joints

Grade 40PQC

LMC: 150mm

Success-no repair
since construction!*
(>23 years)
* 75km blacktopped for 3rd lane widening
 Types of Joints

Longitudinal Joint

Transverse Joint (Contraction/Induced Joint)

Expansion Joint

Construction Joint/Day Joint/Stopend
Longitudinal & Transverse Joints
 Longitudinal Joint

Joint between 2 slabs

Sometimes also
construction joints

Coincide with lane lines

Load transfer tie bars

Used to resist warping
and separation of
pavement
 Transverse Joint

Sawn/formed

Load transfer-Dowel or
aggregate interlock

Used to induce crack

Allow joints to move with
temperature

Control cracking due to
temperature and
concrete shrinkage
 Expansion Joint

Allow movement of
pavement esp. adjacent
to structures/abutments/
anchor beams

Load transfer- Dowels

1/2 section can be
sleeved to ensure
maximum movement
 Construction/Day Joint

Can be longitudinal joint

Can be transverse joint
(Stopend or header joint)