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International Concrete Conference: International Workshop on Best Practices for Concrete Pavements, Recife, Brazil. Organised by mainly: ISCP (Dan Zollinger), IBRACON (Brazil Concrete Society) (Rubens Bittencourt) University of Sao Paulo (Prof Jose Balbo) 21-23 Oct 07 in Recife, Brasil
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International Concrete Conference:International Workshop on Best Practices for Concrete Pavements, Recife, Brazil • Organised by mainly: • ISCP (Dan Zollinger), • IBRACON (Brazil Concrete Society) (Rubens Bittencourt) • University of Sao Paulo (Prof Jose Balbo) • 21-23 Oct 07 in Recife, Brasil • 6 Workshop sessions, over 250 delegates • 41 Presenters • From Brazil, USA, Belgium, UK, Holland, Sweden and South Africa
Workshop topics • Curing & finishing Concrete Pavements • Mechanistic design Procedures (new & rehab) • PCC Pavement Performance & Construction Issues • PCC Pavement Materials • PCC Pavement Rehabilitation • Pre-cast & Pre-stressed Concrete Pavements • Whitetopping • Thermal effects • Long Life characteristics • Structural Analysis • Surface Properties • Effects of reinforcement on CRC Pavements • APT testing of Concrete Pavements
South Africa Won the Best Paper Award: “Accelerated Pavement Testing of Load Transfer through Aggregate Interlock and the influence of Crack Width and Aggregate Type - a case study” • Authors: • Pieter Strauss, Louw du plessis, Bryan Perrie, Dennis Rossman • Presented by: • Louw du Plessis