Elements of Highway Engineering

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Elements of Highway Engineering
Arthur Horace Blanchard
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These bricks, blocks, and slabs have been used in building construction and in pavements for streets and sidewalks. Blocks manufactured with clinker and a hydraulic cement as a binder, in the proportions of three parts of clinker to one part of cement and one to eight parts of fine dust, have not made a very satisfactory pavement in the Bor- ough of Finsbury, England, when subjected to a heavy traffic. In fact, many square yards of this pavement had to be taken up after it had been down for onl...y two years.
Molded slag blocks have been used in England and the United States for the construction of pavements. The details of construction of slag block pavements are similar to those used in the construction of stone block pavements. Careful 374 ELEMENTS OF HIGHWAY ENGINEERING culling of the blocks is required in order to reject those which contain blow-holes. (See Fig. 163. ) These blow-holes in many blocks are not visible on the surface but are soon disclosed under the action of horse-drawn vehicle traffic.


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