Concrete Roads
and Their Construction

År: 1920

Serie: Concrete Series

Forlag: Concrete Publications Limited

Sted: London

Sider: 197

UDK: 625.8 Con-gl.

Being a Description of the concrete Roads in the United Kingdom, together with a Summary of the Experience in this Form of Construction gained in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States of America.

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178 CONCRETE ROADS necessary, washed, to comply with the conditions hereinafter laid down. No aggregate shall be used which is not hard and tough, or which is laminated, and upon crushing breaks down into flat or elongated particles. Soft or porous materials, such as broken brick, breeze, etc., shall be prohibited. All aggregates used shall be clean and free from clay, dust, vegetable and other foreign matter. Care shall be taken that the aggregate is not contaminated with mud, etc., after delivery to the site of the work. Coarse Material.—For one-course roads no aggregate shall be used which will not pass through a screen having square openings of 1 in. ; but for two-course roads the bottom course may contain aggregate the largest stones in which will pass through a l|-in. square opening. None of the coarse material shall pass through a |-in. square opening. The grading from the maximum to the minimum sizes shall be regular, and no material shall be used which contains a large proportion of stones of approximately one size. Sand or fine material shall all pass through a |-in. square open- ing, but not more than 10 per cent, by weight shall pass a sieve having 50 meshes per lineal inch. The grading from the maximum to the minimum sizes shall be regular, and no material shall be used which contains a large proportion, of particles of approxim- ately one size. Representative samples of the approved coarse material and sand shall be retained by the surveyor in charge of the work, and all deliveries shall be required to conform strictly to such samples. 3. Concrete.—The average compression resistance of not less than three test pieces of the concrete shall not be less than will comply with the following formulae :—• When 4 weeks old :—-C 1 = 2,800—200 V, and When 13 weeks old :—C 3 — 3,600—-200 V, where C 1 and C 3 = compression resistance in lbs. per sq. in. V= Volume of sand and coarse material per volume of cement. For determining the compression resistance, tests shall be made on cubes or cylinders of not less than 6 in. each way. The prepara- tion, setting and maturing of the test pieces shall, as far as possible, conform to the conditions that will obtain in the actual execution of the work, provided that care must be taken to see that the conditions for all test pieces are as uniform as practicable, and that none of them is exposed to frost during setting and maturing. The compression resistance of any test piece which gives such a