GB2175032A - A method of resurfacing a road - Google Patents

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GB2175032A
GB2175032A GB08510590A GB8510590A GB2175032A GB 2175032 A GB2175032 A GB 2175032A GB 08510590 A GB08510590 A GB 08510590A GB 8510590 A GB8510590 A GB 8510590A GB 2175032 A GB2175032 A GB 2175032A
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James Mcintosh
Ronald James Goodenough
Graham Beeny
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01C—CONSTRUCTION OF, OR SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES OR AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR
    • E01C7/00—Coherent pavings made in situ
    • E01C7/08—Coherent pavings made in situ made of road-metal and binders
    • E01C7/10—Coherent pavings made in situ made of road-metal and binders of road-metal and cement or like binders
    • E01C7/14—Concrete paving
    • E01C7/147—Repairing concrete pavings, e.g. joining cracked road sections by dowels, applying a new concrete covering
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01C—CONSTRUCTION OF, OR SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES OR AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR
    • E01C11/00—Details of pavings
    • E01C11/005—Methods or materials for repairing pavings
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01C—CONSTRUCTION OF, OR SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES OR AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR
    • E01C19/00—Machines, tools or auxiliary devices for preparing or distributing paving materials, for working the placed materials, or for forming, consolidating, or finishing the paving
    • E01C19/02—Machines, tools or auxiliary devices for preparing or distributing paving materials, for working the placed materials, or for forming, consolidating, or finishing the paving for preparing the materials
    • E01C19/025—Machines, tools or auxiliary devices for preparing or distributing paving materials, for working the placed materials, or for forming, consolidating, or finishing the paving for preparing the materials for preparing hydraulic-cement-bound mixtures of which at least one ingredient has previously been deposited on the surface, e.g. in situ mixing of concrete
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01C—CONSTRUCTION OF, OR SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES OR AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR
    • E01C21/00—Apparatus or processes for surface soil stabilisation for road building or like purposes, e.g. mixing local aggregate with binder
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01C—CONSTRUCTION OF, OR SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES OR AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR
    • E01C23/00—Auxiliary devices or arrangements for constructing, repairing, reconditioning, or taking-up road or like surfaces
    • E01C23/06—Devices or arrangements for working the finished surface; Devices for repairing or reconditioning the surface of damaged paving; Recycling in place or on the road
    • E01C23/065—Recycling in place or on the road, i.e. hot or cold reprocessing of paving in situ or on the traffic surface, with or without adding virgin material or lifting of salvaged material; Repairs or resurfacing involving at least partial reprocessing of the existing paving
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01C—CONSTRUCTION OF, OR SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES OR AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR
    • E01C3/00—Foundations for pavings
    • E01C3/04—Foundations produced by soil stabilisation
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01C—CONSTRUCTION OF, OR SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES OR AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR
    • E01C7/00—Coherent pavings made in situ
    • E01C7/08—Coherent pavings made in situ made of road-metal and binders
    • E01C7/18—Coherent pavings made in situ made of road-metal and binders of road-metal and bituminous binders
    • E01C7/187—Repairing bituminous covers, e.g. regeneration of the covering material in situ, application of a new bituminous topping

Abstract

A method of resurfacing a road wherein the base material is broken-up and pulverized to a predetermined depth with the addition of a binder and a fibrous material before relaying. The binder may be bituminous or tar based or may be cement with the fibrous material comprising chopped up fibre glass or polypropylene having a length of 40 to 150mm. Preferably, the so-formed stabilized load bearing surface is provided with a surface covering itself comprising a fibre glass reinforced bituminous material.

Description

SPECIFICATION A method of providing a stabilized load bearing surface This invention relates to a method of providing a stabilized load bearing surface in which the base material to form the surface is broken-up to a predetermined depth and mixed with a binder so that upon setting or curing of the binder stabilized surface is obtained.
While the method is applicable to providing such a surface where the base, the material to be stabilized, is simply the soil or the unprepared ground of a site. it is of particular use for the repair of comparatively lightly used roads such as country roads, where the actual material of the existing road is broken-up and recycled for use as the base material. Thus while conventionally when a road is breaking up to the extent that it is in need of repair to a substantial depth in that its base is not adequate to provide the- necessary support for a simple resurfacing operation, it is conventional to dig out the base of the road, to remove and dump this extracted material and then to rebuild the road base using fresh materials.
This is very expensive both from the point of view of the case of dumping the old material and providing fresh material and from the point of view of the time taken in that the road itself is out of use such that traffic needs to be diverted or delayed over a period of many weeks. The present invention is especially suitable for the repair of such light roads where the base material of the road is recyc16d and bound together to form a base for the subsequent surfacing in that the road can simply be broken-up using a heavy duty rotovator type machine with this broken-up material being consolidated and stabilized without any need to remove material from the site in that the original road surfacing is bound into the stabilized load bearing surface formed.
According to the present invention there is provided a method of providing a stabilized load bearing surface which comprises breaking up the base material to a predetermined depth with binder and fibrous material being mixed with the broken-up base material followed by levelling and smoothing whereby a load bearing surface is provided following setting or curing of the binder. Preferably, the base material is broken-up into particles the larger of which have a maximum dimension in the range 40 to 50mm. Suitably, the fibres comprising the fibrous material may then have a length in the range of 40 to 150mm.
Whether using cement or bitumen or tar based material as binder a suitable proportion of binder mixed with the base material will normally lie in the range of 5-8% by weight; however, before carrying out the process of the invention core samples would be taken of the base to be stabilized and these could result in the percentage of binder being higher or lower than the given normal range. Where the binder is a bitumen or tar based material, preferably a bituminous/water emulsion, the binder is sprayed with the fibrous material into the base material during the breaking-up and mixing of the base material. Where the binder is cement it may be spread on the base material prior to the, or a final, pulverising and mixing operation in which water is added although it is possible to add the cement during the mixing.The fibres can then be added either by being spread on the base material or during the final pulverising and mixing operation. Suitably, the predetermined depth may be up to half a metre although a preferred depth is about a third of a metre. While any suitable fibres may be used it is presently preferred to use glass fibres where the binding material is bituminous or tar based and to use polypropylene fibres where the binder is cement.
The use of the fibrous material is found to provide a surprisingly effective increase in the shear strength of the final stabilized load bearing surface, being particularly useful where the sub-base for the load bearing surface is itself not particularly stable.
While any suitable surface covering or dressing may be applied to the stabilized load bearing surface, it is preferred that the surface covering itself comprises a glass fibre reinforced bituminous or tar based material provided with a surface dressing as described in our British Patent No. 2081603. In a preferred surface coating the bituminous material may comprise an emulsion of 70% bitumen and 30% water.
We will now described various preferred features of the method of the present invention by way of example.
In repairing a light road, the road is brokenup using a self propelled rotovator having a cutting width of 2m and a maximum cutting depth of 370mm. In one embodiment of the machine the picks of the rotovator tools are tungsten tipped and are rotatable at up to 3000rpm with the rotovator itself being capable of advancing at about 12 metres per minute. Operation of this machine reduces the bituminous road surface and sub-grade to an evenly mixed material with, at the same time, jets of a bituminous emulsion being directed into the mixing material with the simultaneous supply of fibre glass in a form of fibre having a length of 40 to 150mm. While the particular emulsion used may be varied depending upon the base material generally a suitable emulsion could be expected to be an A2-50 or A3 class stable or semi- stable emulsion.The fibres are supplied from choppers which are themselves supplied with a tow of fibre glass supplied "cheeses". The use of the bitumen emulsion is particularly useful in that the water content wets the fibre glass and assists binding of the fibre glass to the pulverised base material. While fibre glass is preferred it is possible to use polypropylene or other fibrous material as the fibre addition. Following this pulverising and mixing step the surface of the road is rolled and, following setting or curing, has a surface covering applied thereto. Preferably, the surface covering itself comprises a bituminous or tar based material reinforced with glass fibre and provided with a surface dressing rolled thereon.
Instead of using a bitumen or tar based material it is possible to use cement as the binder. In this case the most convenient way of applying the cement is to spread it evenly over the surface prior to the pulverising operation so that the pulverising operation mixes the spread cement with the base material.
Suitably, the cement can be deposited at about 32kgs per sq.m giving about 7% by weight of the cement with the pulverised base material. During pulverisation water is injected into the mix with the treated surface then being levelled. A surface covering is provided once the base has stabilized following curing of the cement. Suitably, a period of five days could be left after levelling and before applying and rolling the surface covering onto the base. When using cement the chopped fibres can either be applied and spread over the surface at the same time as the cement is applied prior to the final pulverising process or may be applied with the water during the pulverising and mixing process.
In some cases, more than one passage of the rotovator tool may be required, especially where the base material being recycled is substantial. In that case, one would provide a first breaking up operation pass of the rotovator which we followed by levelling operation with cement being spread on the levelled surface prior to a re-pulverising and mixing process with the additional water. Similarly, where using a bitumen or tar based binder it is possible to have a first breaking up operation- without the addition of binder with the binder being added during a subsequent final pulverising and mixing passage of the rotovator.
While in the exemplary description- above we have referred to the repair and recycling of the base material of light roads. It should be noted that the process of the present invention is also applicable to the binding of soil or generally unprepared base material where a load bearing surface is required to be provided immediately on a site. Generally, either bitumen or cement may be used as binder as indicated above although on lime or clay soils cement is more suitable.

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1. A method of providing a stabilized load bearing surface which comprises breaking up the base material to a predetermined depth with binder and fibrous material being mixed with the broken-up base material followed by levelling and smoothing whereby a load bearing surface is provided following setting or curing of the binder.
2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the base material is broken-up into particles the larger of which have a maximum dimension in the range of 40 to 50mm.
3. A method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the fibres comprising the fibrous material have a length in the range of 40 to 150mm.
4. A method according to any preceding claim wherein 5-8% by weight of binder is mixed with the base material.
5. A method according to any preceding claim wherein the binder comprises a bitumen or tar based material.
6. A method according to claim 5, wherein the binder is bitumen/water emulsion.
7. A method according to claim 5 or 6, wherein the binder is sprayed with the fibrous material into the base material during breaking up and mixing of the base material.
8. A method according to any one of claims 1 to 4 wherein the binder comprises cement.
9. A method according to claim 8, wherein the cement is spread on the base material and is then mixed in with the base material during pulverising thereof with the simultaneous addition of water.
10. A method according to claim 9, wherein the fibres are spread with the cement on the surface of the base material.
11. A method according to claim 9, wherein the fibres are added at the same time as the water during pulverising and mixing.
12. A method according to any preceeding claim wherein the fibrous material comprises glass fibres.
13. A method according to any one of claims 1 to 11 1 wherein the fibrous material compries polypropylene or other man-made fibres.
14. A method according to any preceding claim wherein the base material is an existing road or other load bearing surface which is broken-up to the predetermined depth.
15. A method according to any one of claims 1 to 13, wherein the base material is soil.
16. A method according to any preceding claim, wherein the predetermined depth is up to half a metre.
17. A method according to any preceeding claim, wherein the base material is broken-up using a rotovator-type tool.
18. A method according to any preceeding claim, wherein the stabilized load bearing surface is provided with a surface covering.
19. A method according to claim 18, wherein the surface covering comprises a glass fibre reinforced bituminous or tar based material provided with a surface dressing.
20. A method of providing a stabilized load bearing surface substantially as hereinbefore described.
CLAIMS Claim 1 above has been textually amended.
New or textually amended claims have been filed as follows: 1 A method of providing a stabilized load bearing surface which comprises breaking up the base material in situ to a predetermined depth with binder and fibrous material being mixed with the broken-up base material followed by levelling and smoothing whereby a load bearing surface is provided following setting or curing of the binder.
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