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Design and Construction Procedures for Concrete Overlay and Widening of Existing Pavements; TR-511, September 2005 [PDF]
State Highway Departments and local street and road agencies are currently faced with aging highway systems and a need to extend the life of some of the pavements.
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Real-life strategies are applied to assess pavement functionality, high-quality performance, and durability throughout its service life. Estimating pavement maintenance and sustainability is difficult.
Tamara Bani Ata, Asmaa T. Ibraheem
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Abstract Africa is recognized as the final frontier for urbanization and capitalism. Following a long wave of massive loans to promote state‐led developments, small private foreign and local developers are transforming the urban landscape on the outskirts of Luanda, forging partnerships with Angola's national and local governments and developing an ...
Higor Carvalho
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Developing Smooth, Quiet, Safe Portland Cement Concrete Pavements, March 2004 [PDF]
The concrete paving industry has spent large amounts of time working to provide safe, quiet, and smooth pavements for the traveling public as their needs and driving habits have changed since the advent of the automobile. During that time, the efforts of
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ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul
Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
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Self-Consolidating Concrete—Applications for Slip-Form Paving: Phase II, May 2011 [PDF]
The goal of the project was to develop a new type of self-consolidating concrete (SCC) for slip-form paving to simplify construction an make smoother pavements.
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Surface cracks and joint deteriorations are typical premature failures of urban cement concrete pavement. However, traffic loads on the urban pavement are much lower than those on highways. Limited research has been conducted to investigate the causes of
Weiwei Wang +7 more
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RATIONAL STRUCTURE OF A TSEMENTOBETON FOR A COVERING OF HIGHWAYS [PDF]
The article examines the effect of providing the necessary physical, mechanical and operational characteristics of the road pavement material from cement concrete intended for highways.
Irina Solonenko
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Transformation of the Agrarian Landscape and Hope in the Central Kalimantan Peatlands
ABSTRACT In Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, agrarian state programs and corporate strategies seek to transform indigenous Ngaju Dayak into sedentary farmers. Focusing on the notion of transformation, the paper traces whether and how rural people can engage in struggles against structural injustices.
Anu Lounela
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Bond Development in Concrete Overlays:HR-561, August 1995 [PDF]
Data collection to determine the rate of bond strength development between concrete overlays and existing pavements and the evaluation of nondestructive testing methods for determining concrete strength were the objectives of this study.
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