"August 2002." A National Concrete Pavement Technology Center report.
Scope Note:
Construction report.
Summary:
Many cities in Iowa have retained the original brick street surfaces in downtown areas and in older residential areas as the base for modern driving surfaces. The original brick surfaces were not built to handle current and future traffic loadings. In recent years these surfaces have tended to shift and become uneven, creating problems with safety. Asphaltic concrete overlays have been the typical rehabilitation technique in these situations. This has proven to be a successful rehabilitation technique in some cases; in other cases the combination of the movement of the brick and the flexibility of the asphalt has proven to accentuate the original problems. Most of the existing literature on rehabilitation of brick streets shows the use of asphaltic concrete. Other rehabilitation methods include reconstruction of the brick surface and strengthening of the surface by placing asphaltic concrete or portland cement concrete, along with sand, underneath the brick layers. To date, little if anything has been done in the area of using portland cement concrete as an overlay of the brick surface. This construction report documents the planning and construction of an unbonded ultrathin whitetopping rehabilitation of a brick street in Oskaloosa, Iowa. A future report will contain an evaluation of the performance of the portland cement concrete overlay over time.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)773089012
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
IAOX771 -- State Library of Iowa (Des Moines)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.