TY - JOUR
T1 - Study on thermal stresses in continuously reinforced concrete pavement
AU - Nishizawa, Tatsuo
AU - Shimeno, Shigeru
AU - Komatsubara, Akinori
AU - Koyanagawa, Masashi
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - In the structural design of continuously reinforced concrete pavement (CRCP), thermal stresses should be properly taken into account. Thermal strains and temperatures in concrete slabs were measured on test sections of CRCP. Measured strains were divided into axial, curling, and nonlinear components, and each component was examined. It was found that the curling component is predominant in terms of transverse stress, which is important in the structural design. However, the maximum thermal stress is reduced by 25 percent because of the nonlinear component. On the basis of the results, a procedure for estimating the thermal stress in CRCP was proposed.
AB - In the structural design of continuously reinforced concrete pavement (CRCP), thermal stresses should be properly taken into account. Thermal strains and temperatures in concrete slabs were measured on test sections of CRCP. Measured strains were divided into axial, curling, and nonlinear components, and each component was examined. It was found that the curling component is predominant in terms of transverse stress, which is important in the structural design. However, the maximum thermal stress is reduced by 25 percent because of the nonlinear component. On the basis of the results, a procedure for estimating the thermal stress in CRCP was proposed.
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U2 - 10.3141/1629-12
DO - 10.3141/1629-12
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0032206881
SP - 99
EP - 107
JO - Transportation Research Record
JF - Transportation Research Record
SN - 0361-1981
IS - 1629
ER -