Sentence examples for flexible road from inspiring English sources

Being more flexible, road freight could better compete with rail if the energy price becomes non-issue.

Recently a shakedown approach has been proposed for structural design of flexible road pavements (Wang and Yu, 2013a).

There are countries facing functional constraints on their flexible road pavements due to rutting and trying to resolve this failure.

Recycled concrete aggregates (RCA) appear to be suitable materials to use in hot-mix asphalt (HMA) for flexible road pavements.

This study examined the use of rubberised concrete filled double skin steel tubular columns as a promising construction technique for applications such as columns in buildings located in seismic active zones, security bollards and flexible road side barriers.

Five bituminous mixtures of aggregates for flexible road pavement were designed containing up to 40% of EAF slag and were tested to determine Marshall stability and indirect tensile strength.

This shows that the addition of rubber latex to bituminous concrete (a flexible road-surface) increased sustainability and the strength (in terms of stability and density).

Thus, to increase the strength of bituminous concrete (i.e. a typical flexible road-surface) has been one of the major recent aims in highway engineering.

Whereas, the reduction in voidage volume added strength to the bituminous concrete by increasing its stability and density, the reduction in VMA had no positive impact on the strength properties of the flexible road-surface.

The proposed method has been experimentally validated on a newly built flexible-pavement road section, by comparing the results yielded by it with the results of direct static measurements by means of the Benkelman beam.

"The business travelers have been telling us since we pulled the schedule down following Sept. 11 that we were thwarting their ability sometimes to be as flexible on the road as they need to be".