Reinforcing Rigid Pavement
Reinforcing Rigid Pavement
(OP)
Hello:
There is a doubt that has been drilling my brain since 2 or 3 weeks ago. Someone ask me if I know something about any special specification or desing criteria for reinforcing concrete pavements within a seismeic zone.
I have never read something about it, in fact I have been searching and asking and nobody around the city could tell me something. There was a guy who told me that he believed that in California used to reinforced the rigid pavements pavements to take the strengths generated by the earthquake but it was all that he known.
I'm not an specialist in this topic but I really can find the sense in adding steel bars to a pavement. But you never known.
There is a doubt that has been drilling my brain since 2 or 3 weeks ago. Someone ask me if I know something about any special specification or desing criteria for reinforcing concrete pavements within a seismeic zone.
I have never read something about it, in fact I have been searching and asking and nobody around the city could tell me something. There was a guy who told me that he believed that in California used to reinforced the rigid pavements pavements to take the strengths generated by the earthquake but it was all that he known.
I'm not an specialist in this topic but I really can find the sense in adding steel bars to a pavement. But you never known.





RE: Reinforcing Rigid Pavement
RE: Reinforcing Rigid Pavement
If the reason was to preserve the pavements, I can't imagine the structure that one would come up with that would withstand a Loma Prieta or even smaller magnitude quake. the cost would be exorbitant and unjustified (its easier to remove and/or repair than build).
If the reason is to save lives, how many people have been killed by failing pavements in earthquakes??? If you want to save lives, get the multi-taskers (lip-stick wipin', latte-swillin', cell-phone babblin', hairdo checkin', masturbatin' fools)off the road!
RE: Reinforcing Rigid Pavement
A most definite answer. Too bad it wasn't in the other copy of the same thread that already had some replies.
RE: Reinforcing Rigid Pavement
your notes have confirmed my arguments