Prestressed Concrete Pavement: Design and Analysis"

Civil engineering

To understand behavior patterns of prestressed concrete pavements it is helpful to first review those of conventional concrete pavement. In the past 15 years the possibility of using prestresssed concretefor highway and airfield pavement has become of increasing interest to egineers. Design investigation and limited testing of model and prototype slabs have indicated that prestressed pavements permit a more efficient use of construction material in terms of required pavement thickness. Prestressed pavement can be designed with fewer joints and with less probability of cracking than conventional rigid pavements, thereby promising extended pavement life and reduced maintenance requirement.

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