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Construction Spanish Pocket Dictionary
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Item Code: LT302
Date of Publication: 2002
Price: $8.50
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Pocket-sized dictionary of Spanish terms commonly used on construction projects. Includes hundreds of words and phrases translated from English to Spanish, and Spanish to English. This dictionary is not written in textbook Spanish, but in Spanish used on the job. This is the 13th edition, published by American Society of Concrete Contractors.
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Effectiveness of Portland Cement and Lime in Stabilizing Clay Soils
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Item Code: RP126
Date of Publication: 1999
Price: $4.00
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Save cost by improving poor clay subgrade soils, instead of removing and replacing them. Reviewing over 40 years of research, this comprehensive report details the beneficial chemical and physical changes that occur with cement and compares them with lime stabilization of clay soils. Cement almost always provides higher levels of soil strength, and can also provide significant durability enhancements. Report concludes that cement can effectively stabilize highly plastic clay soils. Reprint of Transportation Research Record. This report is also found on DVD021.
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Guide Specification for Construction of Roller-Compacted Concrete Pavements
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Item Code: IS009
Date of Publication: 2004
Price: $4.00
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This specification serves as an excellent guide to format and content for RCC pavement construction. It contains detailed sections on all aspects of RCC pavement construction. Specific sections include:
General Provisions
Reference Documents
Submittals
Materials
Equipment (including pugmill and conventional concrete mixing plants)
Construction Requirements (including subgrade preparation, test section placement, mixing, transporting, placing, compaction, joint installation, finishing and curing)
Measurement and Payment
It is written in a format that can be easily incorporated into a project specification.
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Long-Term Performance of Full-Depth Reclamation with Portland Cement: Research Synopsis
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Item Code: IS689
Date of Publication: 2007
Price: $12.50
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Full-depth reclamation (FDR) with cement is a procedure where failed asphalt pavements are pulverized and reclaimed, using cement to stabilize the recycled materials and create a new pavement base. This cement-stabilized base is then surfaced to provide a new, long-lasting pavement structure. This research synopsis presents the abbreviated findings of an extensive investigation into the design, construction, testing, and long-term performance of failed flexible pavements rehabilitated through FDR using portland cement. Objectives of this investigation included evaluating the in-service long-term performance of roads rehabilitated using FDR with cement, evaluating the design protocol for field and laboratory investigation for FDR with cement pavements, determining what problems agencies encounter by implementing this rehabilitation technique, and developing guidelines for successful implementation. The actual field performance of more than 75 projects in eight states was evaluated. The average project age was 9 years, and the oldest was 26 years. Overall, the performance of the FDR with cement projects has been excellent. There was no evidence of premature structural failure in any of the sections. In addition, the economics of the process has helped the agencies reconstruct 50% to 100% more projects than the conventional remove and replace methods. The complete research report is available as Full-Depth Reclamation with Portland Cement: A Study of Long-Term Performance, by Imran M. Syed, Ph.D., Portland Cement Association (PCA) publication SR016. 4 pages. Sold in packs of 25.
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Performance of Soil-Cement and Cement-Modified Soil for Pavements: Research Synopsis
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Item Code: IS691
Date of Publication: 2006
Price: $4.00
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This research synopsis presents the abbreviated findings on an extensive laboratory testing study to identify new approaches to improving the performance of soil-cement bases and cement-modified soils in pavements. Current soil-cement design procedures are based solely on 7-day Unconfined Compressive Strength (UCS) criteria, but high base strengths are no guarantee of satisfactory long-term pavement performance. In this project a laboratory study was undertaken to determine the optimal cement content for three marginal Texas base materials. Recommended cement contents are based on balancing conflicting criteria from the following four performance related tests: a) UCS, b) shrinkage, c) moisture susceptibility, and d) abrasion resistance. A new test method called the Tube Suction Test (TST) is introduced for assessing the moisture susceptibility of soil-cement materials. The TST is shown to correlate well with the existing wet-dry and freeze-thaw durability tests.
In addition, the effects of both the level of pulverization and the method of adding the stabilizer (dry vs. slurry) were studied. The major finding was that the properties of the CMS were strongly dependent upon the mixing procedure. The use of cement slurries produced the best lab properties. The results showed that the slurry was effective in treating soil with mixing times up to 4 hours and without mixing remained workable for up to 30 minutes. The complete research report is available as RD120.
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Permeable Interlocking Concrete Pavements, 3rd Edition
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Item Code: LT155
Date of Publication: 2002
Price: $24.00
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Permeable interlocking concrete pavements offer an environmentally friendly way of providing long lasting, beautiful pervious walks and driveways. This guide provides background and design specifications for construction and maintenance of permeable pavement made with concrete pavers. Assists designers on using best management practice for control of storm water runoff and nonpoint source water pollution.
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Recycling Flexible Pavements with Cement: Diverse Methods Produce Durable Pavements
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Item Code: RP125
Date of Publication: 2000
Price: $4.00
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Reprint from “Soil-Cement and Other Construction Practices in Geotechnical Engineering”, Proceedings of Geo-Denver 2000, American Society of Civil Engineers. This paper describes the design concepts, thickness determination, construction procedures, and quality control for recycling old asphalt pavements with cement. Details are given for several case studies.
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Reflective Cracking in Cement Stabilized Pavements
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Item Code: IS537
Date of Publication: 2003
Price: $4.00
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This full-colored information sheet explains the mechanisms of reflective cracking in asphalt pavements due to stabilized bases and provides a number of preventive measures that can be taken to minimize the occurrence of wide problematic cracks.
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Reflectivity of Concrete Pavements: An Annotated Bibliography
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Item Code: LB38
Date of Publication: 2008
Price: $10.00
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The reflectivity, or reflectance, of concrete pavements is one of its many important benefits, providing increased safety on our roads and energy reduction due to its lower lighting requirements. This bibliography is a compilation of references to research studies, industry journal articles, and conference papers on this timely and critical topic. Summaries are included, as well as Web links to the full-text documents.
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Shades of Gray, Sands of Time: Images of Concrete Construction in Days Past
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Item Code: CD061
Date of Publication: 2005
Price: $35.00
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This collection of over 900 black and white photographs illustrates the building of our nation in the last century, the role of concrete in the process and provides glimpses of life in that era. These historical photographs illustrate concrete construction and equipment, including buildings and bridges, highways and streets, and other types of concrete structures under construction. Of special interest are several hundred images of machinery used in concrete construction: paving machines, earthmoving equipment, cranes, buckets, buggies and other "tools of the trade." Of these, there are 144 pictures showing vintage ready mix trucks, from the earliest models to those used in the fifties and sixties.
Industry professionals and observers, teachers and students, and people interested in historical Americana will find this a valuable resource in preparing papers, PowerPoint presentations, and simply for study.
All images are presented in high-resolution quality (1536 x 1045 pixels or higher).
Some of the searchable categories include: Airport construction; Building construction; Batch plants; Bridge construction; Buckets; Buggies; Mixers; Cranes; Dump trucks; Earthmoving machinery; Finishing; Floating; Forms; Vibrating; Pavement construction; Paving machines; Placing; Precasting plants; Ready mix trucks; Ready mixed concrete plants; Resurfacing.
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Soil-Cement Technology for Pavements: Different Products for Different Applications
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Item Code: IS327
Date of Publication: 2005
Price: $10.00
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Soil-cement has been used as a pavement base material and to improve the engineering properties of clay soils for 70 years. Soil-cement provides strength and durability and offers many advantages over other base materials. Among these is its ability to distribute loads and reduce stresses on the subgrade. Unlike an unstabilized granular base, rutting in a cement-treated base is virtually non-existent. The low permeability of a cement-treated base keeps water out and maintains its strength even in the unlikely event it becomes saturated. The higher stiffness of cement-treated bases will lead to lower pavement deflections and lower asphalt strains. Finally soil-cement is the most versatility of any stabilizing reagent. It can be used for just about any soils from high plasticity clays to sands and gravels.
This four-page full-color brochure describes the advantages of soil-cement and briefly defines the different types of soil-cement including cement-modified soil, cement-treated base and full-depth reclamation. Typical soil-cement requirements and properties are given.
Sold in packs of 25.
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