Road structure – process – or apparatus – Pavement – Reinforced structure
Patent
1990-01-24
1991-04-16
Britts, Ramon S.
Road structure, process, or apparatus
Pavement
Reinforced structure
404 28, 404 31, E01C 306
Patent
active
050077643
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to trafficked surfaces, such as paved or unpaved roadways, airport runways, walkways, railroad foundations, and the like.
BACKGROUND ART
Roads, railroads and airports have traditionally been constructed on foundations of earth and rock without heat insulation. Such foundations are, to a greater o lesser degree, susceptible to frost damage such as heaving and surface cracking. In addition, roads are commonly built with insufficient carrying capacity leading to washboarding and damage to the road surface.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
By riveting or screwing sheets of corrugated steel crosswise one on top of the other and filling the cavities between the corrugations with insulating material (polystyrene, peat) a grillage foundation can be built for use in road, railroad and airport construction with both load-bearing and insulation properties. In road and airport construction this insulated steel foundation would be topped by a layer of crushed aggregate or chips stabilised, if required, with cement and then graded. A surface layer or asphalt or concrete pavement could then be applied.
The advantages of such an insulated steel load-bearing grillage foundation in road, railroad and airport building are that the desired load-bearing and insulation properties can be achieved on top of cheap, locally-obtainable, frost-susceptible materials such as boulder clay. In addition, in road and airport building the load-bearing and insulation properties of this grillage foundation permit the use of a thin layer of unreinforced concrete pavement, generally considered superior to asphalt in durability, to be applied as the surface layer. In railroad construction the tracks can be fixed directly to the top layer of corrugated steel. The insulated steel foundation can also be incorporated into existing roads, railroads and airports thereby taking advantage of their existing structural components and, at the same time, both suplementing their carrying capacity and insulating them.
The use of expanded plastic elements to fill the cavities between the corrugations in the steel sheets comprising the heat-insulated steel grillage will result in a structure capable of floating on water with a load-bearing capacity and rigidity determined according to need. Such a structure, with a covering of asphalt or steel plate, may be used on lakes or swamps as the foundation for a floating airstrip for military use in times of emergency or, under normal conditions, for light aircraft. Similarly, the structure can be used to build an emergency floating platform over waterways. The structure can also be fitted with an outboard motor for use as an emergency ferry and, under normal conditions, can serve as a pontoon jetty which can speedily be turned into an emergency ferry. in all the above-mentioned uses the structure permits of rapid assembly from easily stored and portable sections.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of the preferred embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken across line A--A of FIG. 1 of the preferred embodiment of the present invention.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
The diagram overleaf illustrates the structure as it might be used in road and airport construction. Sheets of corrugated steel positioned logitudinally (1) are fixed ast right-angles to similar sheets of corrugated steel positioned cross-wise (2) by means of rivets or screws (3) thus forming the grillage structure. The cavities between the corrugations are filled with insulating material (4) such as expanded plastic or peat. This grillage foundation is then covered in a layer of stabilised or non-stabilised crushed aggregate or chips (5) and surfaced with a layer of asphalt or concrete pavement (6).
1. An insulated trafficked surface comprising: being attached perpendicular to and overlying said first sheet, each of said first and second sheets having a plurality of cavities formed between corrugations; together; second sheets; firs
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Britts Ramon S.
Spahn Gay Ann
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