An alternative to mineral-asphalt pavements are cement-concrete pavements, the development history of which is just as interesting as that of asphalt pavements. The precursors of this road construction technique were the Germans, who built the first cement macadam pavement in Wrocław in 1888. Modern concrete pavement construction technology allows for the preparation of ready-mix concrete in automated batching plants set up near the construction site. The paper concerns the analysis of the life cycle of motorway pavements, starting from the identification of raw material extraction methods, through construction and repair technologies, to the disposal of waste associated with their repair or modernization.The tool used for the analysis of motorway pavements is the LCA method. It allows for the analysis of any product, which in this case is road pavement, in terms of durability treated as a “cradle-to-grave analysis”.
Transport routes can be divided into many types: county roads, national roads, or expressways. Each of these divisions relates to increasingly advanced (…)
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Source: Logistyka Magazine
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