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The first PCC pavement in the U.S. was constructed in 1891 in Bellefontaine, Ohio. This pavement was only 3.0 m wide and 67.1 m long (probably what we would call a “test section” today). In 1909, in Wayne County, Michigan, a PCC highway system was constructed.
The history of portland cement concrete over portland cement concrete (PCC/PCC) composite pavements in the United States dates back to the first concrete pavement constructed in the United States, located in Bellefontaine, OH, in 1891, shown in Figure 1.
Many people believe that the history of concrete pavements began in 1894 with the placement in Bellefontaine, Ohio. That pavement is still in use, and the American Concrete Pavement Association recently memorialized its builder, George Bartholomew, on the pavement's centennial.
The Portland cement concrete (PCC) highway I-86 in Hinsdale, near Olean in Cattarugus County, was reconstructed using unbonded jointed plain concrete pavement overlay. The process involved three treatments of the existing jointed reinforced concrete pavement (JRCP): rubblization, crack and seat, and no treatment.
Perpetual AC pavement and long lasting PCC pavements were constructed on US-30 in Wayne County to compare the performance of these new designs and to reduce maintenance and the associated traffic delays.
WAY30 is the Ohio Department of Transportation’s test road on US Route 30 in Wayne County, near Wooster, OH, consisting of an 8-mile, $54 million project. It was built using the latest techniques for long-lasting pavements, including long-lived Portland cement concrete (PCC) as well as asphalt concrete Perpetual Pavement construction.
Specimens of the PCC pavement on WAY-30 underwent these tests: unit weight, modulus of rupture, static modulus of elasticity, Poisson’s ratio, splitting tensile strength, compressive strength, maturity, and thermal coefficient of linear expansion.
