Description
This guide provides owner-agencies, contractors, materials suppliers, and others with a thorough introduction to roller-compacted concrete (RCC) and its many paving applications. This guide describes RCC and how it works as a paving material, how it compares to concrete pavement, its common uses and benefits, and potential limitations compared to other paving materials. Troubleshooting guidelines are provided, as well as detailed overviews of RCC properties and materials, mixture proportioning, structural design issues, production and construction considerations, and quality control.
Keywords: industrial pavement; inspection and testing; joints; pavement; pavement design; roller-compacted concrete (RCC); RCC mixture proportioning; RCC pavement construction; RCC production.
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1—INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 2—NOTATION AND DEFINITIONS
2.1—Notation
2.2—Definitions
CHAPTER 3—KEY ELEMENTS
3.1—Performance comparison of RCC to conventional concrete pavement
3.2—Materials and structural performance properties
3.3—Performance differences between RCC and conventional concrete pavement
3.4—Benefits of RCC
3.5—Sustainability
3.6—Potential limitations
CHAPTER 4—COMMON USES
4.1—Ports, intermodal facilities, and heavy industrial facilities
4.2—Light industrial areas
4.3—Airport service areas
4.4—Arterial streets
4.5—Local streets
4.6—Widening and shoulders
4.7—Multilayer pavement systems for high-speed uses
4.8—Logging facilities, composting areas, and storage yards
CHAPTER 5—PROPERTIES AND MATERIALS
5.1—Roller-compacted concrete engineering properties
5.2—RCC materials selection
CHAPTER 6—MIXTURE PROPORTIONING
6.1—Mixture proportioning methodologies
6.2—Materials considerations in RCC mixture proportioning
6.3—Methods for mixture proportioning
CHAPTER 7—STRUCTURAL DESIGN
7.1—Basis for design
7.2—Subgrade, subbase, and base design
7.3—Design procedures
7.4—RCC-PAVE software (PCA procedure)
7.5—PCASE software (USACE procedure)
7.6—ACI design procedures