The use of concrete pavements is increasing by virtue of durability and excellent load resisting capacity. But cracks and demage in concrete pavements may be occurred by continuous reciclic load, as time goes by. A recent survey showed that the defect...
The use of concrete pavements is increasing by virtue of durability and excellent load resisting capacity. But cracks and demage in concrete pavements may be occurred by continuous reciclic load, as time goes by. A recent survey showed that the defects of JCP consists of joint seal damage, joint spalling, patching deterioration and transverse crack, and that the defects of CRCP mainly consists of corner crack near the transversely cracked area. The purpose of the present study is to explore the characteristics of fatigue behavior, failure mechanism and to present realistic formula for fatigue life. The evaluation of reliability and serviceability of FWD is also studied. For this purpose, a series of static load and fatigue tests of JCP and CRCP were carried out The test members were sized to 1/3-1/4 of one lane JCP and CRCP and test variables are the locations and magnitude of load, crack spacing and the locations of reinforced bars. From the static load tests, JCP members are failed at 8 ton for static load and it is found that the loading transfer capacity of JCP is dropped rapidly. For the center loading the specimen of CRCP members failed at 13 ton and for the corner loading of that at 8 ton. It is found that the crack resisting capacity of CRCP is better than that of JCP. From fatigue tests for CRCP members, realistic formula for fatigue life is suggested. The value obtained by this formula is similar with that by VESAC and the fatigue life by traffic loads are highly evaluated, as this test results is only considered the traffic loads except environmental condition. Compared the field test with laboratory test for FWD, it is an equipment useful to maintenance and manage of the concrete pavements.