This report reviews pavement performance testing results on an experimental concrete pavement built on Minnesota T.H. 36 in 1958 that contains variations in joint spacing, reinforcement, dowels, and transverse joint fillers. South Dakota Profile Serviceability Rating (PSR), Minnesota Structural Rating (SR), and Concrete Pavement Evaluation System (COPES) surveys conducted in 1990 revealed that the best performing sections were the 15 foot (4.6 m) and the 20 foot (6.1 m) sections with bituminous coated or rust inhibitor painted dowels. The longer sections, 33 foot (10 m) and 65 foot (20 m), and the panels with sleeved dowels performed poorly. All transverse joint fillers, which included "Presstite 77" and rubber asphalt Minnesota Spec. 3723, failed within three years. Researchers previously studied the sections from 1959-1969; this report references several memos and letters
on the pavement's performance. The four basic pavement sections include: 15 foot (4.6 m) and 20 foot (6.1 m) unreinforced sections with one undoweled and three different dowel segments, and the 33 foot (10 m) and 65 foot (20 m) reinforced sections with three types of mesh and three different doweled segments. 10 Table, 1 figure, 6 appendices. 5,173k, 48p.
This report highlights an investigation into concrete pavement performance problems caused by transverse joint misalignment on a segment of westbound ...
This report is one of a series of reports prepared as part of a recent study sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) aimed at updating ...
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