Study and propose the size of cement concrete slabs for airport road surface in Vietnam conditions

Abstract

Cement concrete slabs (CCS) for road pavement has many ad-vantages such as high Young modulus and long life expectancy, but this type of road pavement needs transverse joints (contraction joints, expansion joints and construction joints) that adversely affect the using process. Recently, many scientists have been studying solutions to increase the size (length and width) of cement concrete slabs in order to increase the smoothness of the road pavement and reduce the amount of raining water penetrating into joints. In this paper, the authors study and propose solutions to use reinforcement to reduce the amount of joints on cement concrete pavement which bring a better using process of this road pavement type.