High Performance Stress-Relaxing Cementitious Composites for Crack Free Pavements and Transportation Structures

The research is attempting a crosscutting and bold approach to address the issue of cracking in concrete pavements and structures. The research study proposes new concepts to prevent or reduce cracks, which are a major problem in portland cement concrete. If successful, the project can point the way to a new use of nanoscale- to microscale inclusions in the concrete to enable it to relax a little under stress, thus reducing harmful cracking in concrete pavements.

• Record URL:
  http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/research/tfhrc/projects/projectsdb/projectdetails.cfm?projectid=FHWA-PROJ-08-0003
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Program Information: Exploratory Advanced Research. Report is available at: http://ntl.bts.gov/lib/54000/54600/54610/YAZDANBAKHSH-DISSERTATION.pdf

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Meininger, Richard

• Performing Organizations:

  Texas A&M Transportation Institute, College Station

  Texas A&M University System
  3135 TAMU
  College Station, TX  United States  77843-3135
• Principal Investigators:

  Grasley, Zachary

• Start Date: 20080220
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20110331
• Source Data: RiP Project 34576

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Composite materials; Concrete pavements; Cracking; High performance concrete; Portland cement concrete; Stress relieving
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pavements; I30: Materials;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01572677
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Department of Transportation
• Files: RIP
• Created Date: Aug 12 2015 1:01AM