Hardscaping and Paving Flashcards
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What are the four things hardscaping and paving do?
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- ALL PAVEMENTS ARE COMPOSITE STRUCTURES
- SUPPORT TRAFFIC LOADS: PEDESTRIAN, CYCLIST, VEHICLE
- IMPART SCALE, PATTERN
- AFFECT RUN-OFF RATES, STORM-WATER QUALITY
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What are the five layers of Hardscaping?
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PAVEMENT BASE SUB-BASE SUB GRADE PAVEMENT EDGE
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Q
What are the three things that pavement does?
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- RECEIVES TRAFFIC WEAR
- PROTECTS BASE
- TRANSFERS LOADS TO BASE CLASSIFIED AS RIGID OR FLEXIBLE, MONOLITHIC OR UNIT
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What are the three things a rigid pavement does?
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- DISTRIBUTE LOADS INTERNALLY
- TRANSMIT LOADS OVER BROADER AREA THAN FLEXIBLE PAVEMENTS
- REINFORCED CONCRETE MORTARED UNIT PAVERS ON REINFORCED CONCRETE BASE
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What are the four things/characteristics a flexible pavement does?
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- RESILIENT
- DISTRIBUTE LOADS DOWN THROUGH SUB-BASE
- CHARACTERIZED BY THIN WEARING SURFACES AND RELATIVELY THICK BASES AND SUB-BASES
- ASPHALT (FLEXIBLE, MONOLITHIC) BRICK ON SAND SETTING BED (FLEXIBLE, UNIT)
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3 Base characteristics
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- WELL-GRADED AGGREGATE FOUNDATION
- TRANSFERS LOAD TO SUB-BASE OR SUB-GRADE
- PREVENTS UPWARD MIGRATION OF CAPILLARY WATER
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3 Sub-base characteristics
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- FOR HEAVY DUTY PAVEMENTS
- AN ADDITIONAL BASE MATERIAL
- CLEAN, BUT COARSE GRADED AGGREGATES
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4 Subgrade characteristics
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- THICKNESS DEPENDENT ON BEARING CAPACITY, PERMEABILITY, FROST LINE
- SHOULD BE UNDISTURBED EARTH OR COMPACTED FILL
3 MUST BE SLOPED TO DRAIN INFILTRATION WATER - CONDITION HAS LESS EFFECT ON RIGID PAVEMENT’S THICKNESS; CRITICAL FOR FLEXIBLE PAVEMENT’S THICKNESS
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4 Edge characteristics
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- LOCATED AT PERIMETER PREVENTS BREAKING OR CRUMBLING BY EXTENDING SUB BASE BEYOND
- PAVEMENT EDGE
- FLEXIBLE PAVEMENTS MAY HAVE EDGE OR CURB FOR LATERAL SUPPORT
- WOOD, STEEL, CONCRETE, STONE, MASONRY
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What are the 6 design criteria of hardscape and paving
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- FUNCTION + TRAFFIC TYPE
- LOAD BEARING CAPACITY
- DURABILITY: CLIMATE, SITE PREP, MATERIAL, INSTALLATION
- SAFETY: TRACTION, WEATHERING
- AESTHETICS: PATTERN, COLOR (URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT), GLARE
- COST: SHORT AND LONG TERM
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Q
What are ten materials used for hardcaping and paving?
A
ASPHALT REINFORCED CONCRETE UNIT PAVING GRANITE LIMESTONE SANDSTONE SLATE POROUS PAVING GRIDS TURFBLOCK SOIL STABILIZING AGENTS
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Characteristics of Asphalt
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- made up of ASPHALT CEMENT, COARSE AND FINE AGGREGATES (60-90% OF MIX)
- SURFACE COURSE, BASE COURSE, TACK COAT, AGGREGATE BASE
- HOT MIX (275-325F): PLANT MIXED
- WARM MIX (200-275F): FOAM PROCESS, MINERAL ADDITIVE, ORGANIC ADDITVE,CHEMICALLY MODIFIED BINDER
- COLD MIX (60F): EMULSIFIED AND CUTBACK
- THICKNESS: TWICE NOMINAL MAXIMUM AGGEGATE SIZE, MINIMUM;SET BY TRAFFIC CLASS, VOLUME, SUBGRADE
- 2 TO 7 PERCENT VOIDS FOR EXPANSION AND COMPACTION OF AGGREGATESCAN BE POROUS USING OPEN GRADED COURSE WITH 14-18 PERCENT VOIDS
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3 Reinforced Concrete Characteristics
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- FINISHES: EXPOSED AGGREGATE (VARIOUS), BROOM, BURLAP, STAMPED
- COLORED: INTEGRAL, TWO-COURSE METHOD, SEEDING
- JOINTS: EXPANSION (ISOLATION), CONTROL (CONTRACTION), CONSTRUCTION
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6 characteristics of porous concrete
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- UNIFORMLY GRADED COARSE AGGREGATE
- 11-21 PERCENT PORE SPACES
- TYPICALLY 6 INCHES THICK OVER 4 INCH AGGREGATE BASE COARSE
- REQUIRES MORE PORTLAND CEMENT THAN STANDARD CONCRETE
- CONCERNS WITH FLY ASH DUE TO INADEQUATE CURING
- RAKED INTO PLACE
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6 characteristics of unit paving
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- BRICK, CONCRETE, ASPHALT
- VARIETY OF COLORS AND PATTERNS
- EASILY REPAIRED
- CAN BE RIGID OR FLEXIBLE, PERMEABLE OR IMPERMEABLE
- HIGH INSTALLATION COST, DIFFICULT TO CLEAN
- SUSCEPTIBLE TO DIFFERENTIAL SETTLEMENT