NETC: New England Transportation Consortium Annual Report for Calendar Year 1998. Transportation Innovations and Improvements for the Future

摘要

;Partial Contents: Introduction; 1998 Accomplishments; Progress of Active Projects; Tire Chips as Lightweight Backfill for Retaining Walls, Phase II: Full-Scale Testing; Bridge Rail Crash Test, Phase II: Sidewalk-Mounted System; Structural Analysis of New England Subbase Materials and Structures; Nondestructive Testing of Reinforced Concrete Bridges; Using Radar Imaging Techniques; Procedures for The Evaluation of Sheet Membrane Waterproofing; Durability of Concrete Crack Repair Systems; Use of Tire Chips/Soil Mixtures to Limit Frost Heave and Pavement Damage of Paved Roads; Suitability of Non-Hydric Soils for Wetland Mitigation; Implementation and Evaluation of Traffic Marking Recesses for Application of Thermoplastic Pavement Markings on Modified Open Graded Mixes; Buried Joints in Short Span Bridges; Implementation of Superpave; Optimizing GPS Use in Transportation Projects; Effectiveness of Fiber Reinforced Composites as Structural and Protective Coverings for Bridge Elements Exposed to Deicing-Salt Chlorides; A Portable Method to Determine Chloride.