Rigid Pavements
Areas of R & D and Consultancy/Core Activities
Areas of R & D
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Design, Construction, Evaluation and Maintenance of Concrete Pavements
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Innovation in Concrete Technology
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Utilization of industrial wastes and By-products in Concrete Road Construction
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Development of New Binders for Concrete
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Concrete for Sustainable Development
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Instrumentation for Rigid Pavements
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Investigation of causes of distresses / failures and Remedial measures
Consultancy / Core Activities
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Design, construction, evaluation and maintenance of Rigid pavements
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Pavement performance evaluation and distresses / failure investigations
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Strengthening / rehabilitation of Rigid pavements
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Quality control, quality assurance and quality audit of road works
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Utilization of industrial wastes and by-products in concrete road construction
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Design of concrete mixes using fly ash, fiber, silica fume and super plasticizers etc.
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Evaluation, Rehabilitation and Repair of Concrete Pavements
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Quality control aspects of concrete pavements
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Testing, evaluation and characterization of road construction materials
Infrastructure Facilities
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Universal Testing Machine
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Compression Testing Machine
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Environmental Chamber
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Abrasion Testing Machine
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Dry Shrinkage Apparatus
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Diamond Core Cutter
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Pan Mixer
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Vibratory Table
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Core cutting Machine
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Materials Testing Laboratory for Cement, Flyash, Aggregates and Concrete
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Humidity Chamber
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Autoclave (Soundness of Cement)
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Automatic Compactor
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Datalogger for capturing real time strain data from Concrete Pavement
Training Programmes
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Design, Construction and Maintenance of Rigid Pavements
Technologies Developed by the Division
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Roller compacted concrete for pavements
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High volume fly ash concrete for pavements
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Ultra thin while topping using High performance fiber reinforcement concrete for resurfacing of existing Asphalt Pavement
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Use of Wollastonite (Natural Mineral Fibers) in cement concrete
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Synthetic Fiber Reinforced Concrete
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Use of marble slurry dust in cement concrete
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Use of slags in cement concrete
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Sand stabilization with Magnesium Oxy-Chloride cement
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Magnesium Phosphate cement for quick repair of concrete
Contribution to Standards
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IRC 58-2002 Guidelines for the Design of Plain Jointed Rigid Pavements for Highways (Second Revision)
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IRC:15-2002 Standard Specification and Code of Practice for Construction of Concrete Roads ( Third Revision)
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IRC:SP: 49-1998 Guidelines for the use of Dry Lean concrete as sub-base for Rigid Pavements
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IRC: SP: 62-2004 Guidelines for the Design and Construction of Cement concrete Pavements for Rural Roads.
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IRC:SP:68-2005 Guidelines for Construction of Roller Compacted Concrete Pavements
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IRC: SP:76-2008 Tentative Guidelines for Conventional, Thin and Ultra thin White topping
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IRC: SP: 83-2008 Guidelines for Maintenance, Repairs and Rehabilitation of Cement Concrete Pavements.
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BIS:456:2000 Plain and Reinforced concrete – Code of Practice