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flexible pavement

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flexible pavement [‚flek·sə·bəl ′pāv·mənt]
(civil engineering)
A road or runway made of bituminous material which has little tensile strength and is therefore flexible.


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The 4th Rubber-Modified Asphalt Conference will be held May 7-8, and is co-hosted by the Rubber Division, ACS, the Rubber Pavements Association and the Rubber Manufacturers Association, in conjunction with the National Asphalt Pavement Association, the Asphalt Institute, the National Center for Asphalt Technology, Flexible Pavements of Ohio, the Rubber Recycling Topical Group, the Federal Highway Administration and the Regional Environmental Protection Agency.
The main goal of any highway agency is to ensure that pavements will maintain an adequate level of performance throughout their designed life," says Brett Haggerty, transportation engineer with the Flexible Pavements Branch of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and project director for Research Project 0-5496, Tracking the Performance of HMA Mixtures in Texas.
Symposium on the Mechanics of Flexible Pavements (2006: Boulder, CO) Ed.
 
 
 
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