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PREFACE:

In the years since the first edition was published, there have been a number of changes in concrete pavement technology. Some approaches are now less used. Other topics have become more important and required new chapters, such as sustainability, the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide for highways, and pervious concrete and roller compacted pavements. All other chapters have been thoroughly reviewed, and trimmed to make room for new material. I hope that this work will continue to be of value to students, professors, researchers, and practicing engineers.

There are too many people to thank for helping me with this book, but I will try anyway. To begin with, the members of American Concrete Institute Committees 325–Concrete Pavements, Committee 327–RollerCompacted Concrete Pavements, Committee 330–Concrete Parking Lots and Site Paving, and Committee 522–Pervious Concrete, helped me considerably with discussions during committee meetings and over beers afterward. James Shilstone, Sr. (Jim) and James Shilstone, Jr. (Jay) supplied material for Chapter 5, and Juan Pablo Covarrubias supplied material for Chapter 9. Tim Smith of the Cement Association of Canada, Dale Crowl of the Ohio Department of Transportation, and George Palko of The Great Lakes Construction Company supplied photographs.

 In addition to my colleagues, I would like to thank my students in courses at Cleveland State University and at the University of Alabama at Birmingham over the years, because teaching them challenged me to research and synthesize the material.

 Finally, I need to thank my wife Lynn and our children, Isabella and Joe, for their patience while I was drafting this manuscript.

Concrete pavements have been used for highways, airports, streets, local roads, parking lots, industrial facilities, and other types of infrastructure. When properly designed and built out of durable materials, concrete pavements can provide many decades of service with little or no maintenance. “Concrete generally has a higher initial cost than asphalt but lasts longer and has lower maintenance costs” (Hoel and Short 2006: 26). 

In some cases, however, design or construction errors or poorly selected materials have considerably reduced pavement life. It is therefore important for pavement engineers to understand materials selection, mixture proportioning, design and detailing, drainage, construction techniques, and pavement performance. It is also important to understand the theoretical framework underlying commonly used design procedures, and to know the limits of applicability of the procedures .