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Creators:
Abbas, Ala R. ; Mohi, Amal ; Butterfield, Justin
Abbas, Ala R. ; Mohi, Amal ; Butterfield, Justin Less -
Corporate Creators:
University of Akron. Department of Civil Engineering
Corporate Contributors:
Ohio. Dept. of Transportation. Office of Research and Development
Subject/TRT Terms:
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Bridge Decks Concrete Bridges Concrete Bridges--Floors Road Marking Materials Road Markings--Ohio--Testing
Publication/ Report Number:
FHWA/OH-2008/13
Resource Type:
Tech Report
Geographical Coverage:
Ohio
Edition:
Executive summary report.
Corporate Publisher:
Ohio. Dept. of Transportation
Abstract:
ODOT uses a number of pavement marking

materials including waterborne and alkyd traffic paint,

polyester, thermoplastic, preformed tapes, epoxy, and

heat-fused preformed thermoplastic; which are

addressed in ODOT Construction and Material

Specifications (C&MS) Items 640 and 740. Material

selection is presented in Table 397-1 of the 2002 Traffic

Engineering Manual (TEM), whereby the material type

is chosen according to the remaining life of the

pavement surface, type of line (longitudinal line or

auxiliary), type of pavement surface (asphalt or

concrete), and average daily traffic (ADT). According to

this table, durable markings such as thermoplastic and

epoxy are more likely to be applied on highways with

high traffic volumes and pavements with a remaining

surface life in excess of four years, while non-durable

markings such as traffic paint and polyester are

recommended for restriping. Furthermore, thermoplastic

markings are specified for new asphalt pavements and

epoxy markings are specified for new concrete

pavements. This constraint, however, has significant

financial impacts on projects that include concrete

bridge decks connected to mainline asphalt pavements.

The additional cost in such projects is resulted from

paying the contractor an extra cost to use thermoplastic

for the asphalt portion and epoxy for the concrete

portion, or from dividing the project into two separate

projects; one for the asphalt and another for the concrete.

Due to these financial concerns, thermoplastic,

which has poor durability on concrete surfaces, is

currently being applied onto the concrete bridge decks as

well as the mainline asphalt pavements. This often

results in premature debonding in the bridge stripes

compared to those on the adjoining asphalt pavement.

This deficiency raises major safety concerns

regarding these bridges, and leads to low

performance ratings as measured using various

performance indicators in force by ODOT.

As a result, ODOT invited the pavement

marking industry to provide alternative marking

materials and/or installation techniques to be

tested on Portland cement concrete bridge decks

along interstate I-71 in District 3; and initiated

this project to evaluate the performance of the

proposed materials.


Format:
PDF
Funding:
State Job No. 134315
Collection(s):
US Transportation Collection
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