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“PREVENTION
TECHNICS FOR
CRACKS IN ROAD”
PRESENTED BY
SAMMED KIRAN CHOUGULE
GUIDED BY
PROF. A.S.THORBOLE

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AREA UNDER
STUDY

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INTRODUCTION
The crack is one of the common diseases of asphalt pavement. The early
crack has little influence on the performance of the use of the road,
however, with the increasing of the cracks, quantitative accumulation leads
to qualitative transformation the and has serious influence on pavement
performance, even lead to the damage of the integrity of the road.
Therefore, It is necessary for us to start from the early crack, analyzes its
causes and puts forward prevention measures. The cracks of the asphalt
pavement is inevitable and can't be avoided, we are only able to improve
the design and construction techniques to reduce the generation of cracks
and delay initial cracking time.

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PROBLEM STATEMENT
1. The highway facilities are negligible or not exist including drainage systems and manholes and channels and
other accessories such as handrails, and curbs because of the poor design and the high cost for construction and
maintenance.
2. Poor maintenance policy, cracks in base, sanction system, local standards, supervision, laboratory tests,
operation by high traffic volume and load, and construction in bad conditions are all causes for road
deterioration.
3. High traffic axial load and volume is a cause for deterioration, and institutes and organizations in traffic highway
and transportation areas should have to update rules and regulations and enforce their implementation in fact.
Many of heavy traffic enter residential areas and takes unpermitted routes of roads and highways.
4. The prepared schedules for maintenance and construction usually start or happen during bad weather conditions
at winter mainly.
Contractor Individual Rank for Factors

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6. Structural failure of base, construction and shrinkage joints, defects caused during construction are causes for
deterioration of road in crack and structural failure group.
7. Poor supervision, maintenance program, and tests during construction, poor local standards, highway facilities, and
data base and sanction system are causes for deterioration of road, and should be updated and developed to keep up with
the new requirements for construction.
8. Large traffic axial loading and volume also has a grouped rank of 3.59 among groups of factors.
9. Compaction during construction, bond between layers, and construction conditions rank 3.46, .43, and 3.41
respectively among groups.
10. Drainage systems, aggregate properties, align and geometry of road, layers’ thicknesses, and pavement width are all
ranking bellow the mean of the grouped factor.
Contractor Grouped Rank for Factors:
1. Thicknesses of surface, base, and sub-base, width of pavement, geometry and alignment of road are direct causes
for deterioration of road as they specified during design and preparation of contract documents, also construction
operation is not an area for a question as it is a direct implementation and application for the specifications,
standards, and contract documents.

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1. To Study Pavement Road Construction process.
2. To Study Factors affecting quality of pavement road quality.
3. To study properties of ingredients of road and research on enhancement of
quality.
4. Study types of failures in road.
5. Study Alternative technics of road construction.
6. Suggest the failure prevention construction technic to improve road quality.
7. Preparation of a project research report and guidelines for crack mitigation
and preventive technics.
OBJECTIVES

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METHODOLOGY
STUDY OF ROAD
CONSTRUCTION PROCESS
STUDY OF FACTORS AFFECTING ROAD
CONSTRUCTION PROCESS
STUDY OF FAILURES OF ROAD DUE TO
IMPROPER CONCENTRATION OF INGREDIENT
FINDING REMEDIAL
SOLUTION FOR
FAILURES
RESEARCH ONPREVENTING TECHNICS USED IN
ROAD CONSTRUCTION TO AVAOID
CRACKS(FAILURE)
SITE VISIT AND QUESTIONIER FOR
CONTRACTORS TO KNOW THER PROBLEMS IN
CONSTRUCTION PROCESS
SUGGESTING PROPER METHODS/SOLUTION
TO PREVENT ROAD CRACKS
5.METHODOLOGY

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FINDING

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Preventive measures to avoid creation of
cracks:
1 Reduce Water Content in Concrete
2 Proper Concrete Mix Design and
use of Quality Materials
3 Finishing of Concrete Surface

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4 Proper Curing of Concrete

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 Applying good acrylic silicone sealer yearly to concrete
works
 Avoid calcium chloride admixtures
 Prevent extreme changes in temperature.
 Consider using a shrinkage-reducing admixture
 Warm the subgrade before placing concrete on it during
cold weather
 Consider using synthetic fibers to help control plastic
shrinkage cracks.
Some Other Preventive Control Measures for Cracks in
Concrete:

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CONCLUSION
The effectiveness of pavement treatments is often determined simply based on
the benefits gained, as mentioned previously. The benefits, however, do not
indicate effectiveness relative to cost, which is the main constraint for all State
transportation departments. Most literature agreed that treatments applied to
pavements in better condition produce more benefits, and the cost of the
treatment was a function of the conditions.
Further, the time-value relationship of money affects the cost of the treatment
and its cost effectiveness. Therefore, benefits must be compared relative to costs
to determine the cost effectiveness of the treatment and to select the treatment
timing.

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Performing pavement treatments at the optimum time provides t
greatest benefit-to-cost ratio. Few methodologies for the determination
optimum treatment timing for preventive maintenance and rehabilitati
actions were developed.
However, the most cost-effective treatments should consider t
pavement longevity and should be based on the ratio of dollars to yea
of service. To improve lifecycle costs, State transportation departmen
should base their preservation strategies on maximizing the longevity
the pavement network rather than maximizing the condition of t
network.

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