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Professional Paving Projects in Denver, Co
Our professionals at Mile High Paving provide excellent solutions for paving projects in Denver, CO. We offer three different types of concrete pavement designs to meet the specifications of your commercial project. You can choose from jointed plain concrete pavements (JPCP), jointed reinforced concrete pavements (JRCP), or continuously reinforced concrete pavements (CRCP). Each of these different solutions is constructed for durability and strength. They each have slightly varying uses and applications. Our long-lasting pavements are suitable for new construction, reconstruction, and resurfacing. No matter what construction plan you have in mind, we can meet your specific project requirements.
Types of Concrete Pavement
Jointed Plain Concrete Pavement is valued for its cost-effectiveness and reliability. This type of paving design is very common and makes up the vast majority of concrete pavements. In this design, the concrete does not contain reinforcements but may include dowel bars installed across the transverse joints. This helps transfer traffic loads across slabs. It can also include tie bars across the longitudinal joints to create aggregate interlock between the slabs. JPCP is made up of transverse joints spaced about 15 to 16 ft apart.
Joint reinforced concrete pavement contains both joints and reinforcement for added durability and strength. Because the joint spacings are longer, dowel bars and tie bars are used at all transverse and longitudinal joints. Additionally, reinforcement is distributed throughout the slab at 0.15 to 0.25 percent of the cross-sectional area. If any transverse cracks develop in the slab, the reinforcement is designed to hold the cracks tightly together. This design is not as common as it once was but is still used by municipalities to some extent.
Continually reinforced concrete pavement has no transverse joints. Instead, it contains a significant amount of longitudinal reinforcement. About 0.6 to 0.8 percent of the cross-sectional area also uses transverse reinforcement. The high concentration of reinforcement has a major influence on the development of transverse cracks within an acceptable spacing. It holds cracks tightly together so that further damage doesn’t accrue when the pavement is under a lot of pressure. The construction and high-reinforcement of this design make it an optimal solution for high-traffic loads such as busy roads and sidewalks.