CEMENT ROAD

CONSTRUCTION

Construction
of Cement
Concrete
Road
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Using mix Concrete , there are

some steps to construct the road-

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7.

Preparation of base
Form working
Preparation of subgrade
Watering of base
Joints
Material mix & placing
Compaction

8. Finishing of surface
8A.
Floating
8B.
Belting
8C.
Brooming
9. Curing
10. Joint filling
11. Edging
12. Open to traffic
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1. Preparation of subgrade
1. Rolling on sub grade by roller
2. Filling the granular soil in the weak part and
pot holes
3. Correct the soil coat , Camber ,
longitudinal slope
When concrete direct laid on subgrade,
For preventing the water-seepaging into the
soil , use water proof material on entire length
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2. 2.
Preparation
of of
base
Preparation
base

Choose any one type of base

1. W.B.M. base
As base material of W.B.M. Road; stone
ballast, concrete 10-15cm layer are used. For
bonding between concrete slab & W.B.M. used
1:2 cement wash on W.B.M.
2. Concrete base
On the road used 10cm Cement
concrete(1:2:4) or lime concrete(16:32:64)
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3.
3. Form
Form work
work
Material for form workWooden sheets, battens, plywood, fibre hard
board, steel plates, angles, rope, minerals.
1. before using form work, it should free
from all type material like as dust ,cement.
2. To place the concrete in appropriate depth
use 2.5-5cm thick and 3mtr long wooden
sheeting.

3. The depth of wooden block must

be same as level of slab thick.
4. After 24hrs form work displace
next length of road.

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4. Watering of base

If base is dry
Than using the sprinkling process on it
properly after that placing the
concrete.

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5. JOINTS

Wherever it is necessary to
provide transverse, Longitudinal joints;
there wedge of woods, metals to be
fixed on level of concrete.
After setting of concrete it should
be pull out.
If provided the dowel bar in joints,
bars should be fit at right position.
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6. Material mix & placing

Mixer is equipment that mix the concrete using
distinct amount of cement , concrete, sand and
water. Concrete slab should have more than 510cm thick cause of drying.
Used two type mixer1. Batch mixerat site, used for small road construction
2. Continuous mixerContinuous mixer used for large construction .
if distance is more from site , mix concrete
transported at site within setting time.
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Two methods generally used in placing

of concrete1. Alternate bay methodPlaced the concrete on both side
of road alternatively like as1,3,5 part
at one side and 2,4,6 part other
side .
1st side
2nd side
This method have slow process due to
road traffic problems.
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2. Continuous bay methodconstruct one side of road

regularly, if completed some part of
first side than construct other side.
this method have fast process
without no obstruction of traffic

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7. Compaction

Purpose of compaction is that to pull out

air from void and make concrete harden.
Compaction done by1.mechanically surface vibrator
2. manually hand tempers
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8. Finishing of surface
1.FloatingFor levelling the surface use
floating, scree-ding , power trowel. So
that there is no acceptable more than
3mm variation in concrete level surface.
2.BeltingFor making surface clean used
belting process. Belt is nothing but a
15-30cm thick sheets of canvass which
have more length than road.
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3. BroomingBrooming is the process in which

we made rough surface parallel to road
by brush.
It useful in avoiding slip &
comfortable travelling on road .
the depth of line on road no more
than 1.5mm.

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9. Curing

Curing is the name of increasing

the hydration process of cement.
after setting the concrete ,
curing process done till 14-28days.

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Some method of curing are1.Shading concrete works

2. Covering with hessian & gunny bags
3. Sprinkling of water
4.By ponding
5. Membrane curing
6. Steam curing

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Fillin
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After drying road, clean the joints and

fill the shelling compound or hot
bitumen .
also bitumen fill road bank.

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To protect damaging the sides of
concrete pavements use kerb of pre
mix concrete and carefully finshing
done by edging tool.

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Generally after a month, road
should be open to traffic.
If used rapid hardening cement it
take 7 days to open traffic.
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Thank you
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