WATMOVE - Final Report PDF
WATMOVE - Final Report PDF
WATMOVE - Final Report PDF
Inside 1. Overview
This is document is a summary of the work performed by the
1 Overview
‘COST351 Action’ known by its acronym “WATMOVE”.
2 Introduction
Following a programme lasting almost 3½ years the study team
4 COST 351
from 18 European countries has researched just about every
4 Aims & Objectives aspect of Water Movement in road pavements and in the
5 Achievements earthworks of highways constructed to allow roads to cross the
landscape. As water in the construction is one of the main
6 Summary of Technical
causes of deterioration and premature distress of pavements
Coverage & Findings
and their supporting geo-technical structures, the project has
15 Workshops, Newsletters
concentrated:
& Web-site
firstly on understanding water movement, water contents
15 Conclusions
and their effects on the materials that comprise the
16 Acknowledgements
highway construction,
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2. Introduction
Roads have been constructed for more than 2000 years. Even
the earliest engineers practiced drainage of the pavement’s
sub-surface layers in order to keep the highway functioning.
Hexagonal flagstones
Edge stone crossfall
sometimes cemented
in place as restraint
A Schematic of a Typical
50mm stone
sand layer Pavement and
Embankment Structure as
Built by Roman Engineers
Longitudinal
drain
Natural formation
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Rutting Ahead Rutting and Cracking of a Distressed Pavement with poor Drainage
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3. COST 351
Slovenia 11/06/2003
Spain 08/10/2004
Sweden 29/01/2004
4. Aims & Objectives
Switzerland 10/09/2003
United Kingdom29/01/2001 To help ensure that valuable and applicable findings were
obtained from the study, the main objective of the Action was
defines as an increase in the knowledge required to improve the
highway performance and to minimise the leaching of
contaminants from roads and traffic. The overall goal will be
appreciated by the users of roads just as much as by pavement
engineers as it is to improve pavement performance allowing
less road closures, better use of the road network, longer service
lives and more effective transportation of goods and people.
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5. Achievements
Chapters of the Book:
”Water in Roads” The chief achievement is a nearly 400 page book to be
published soon by Springer. The chapter outline is shown
Introduction
alongside. A total of 13 chapters, plus annexes, have allowed
Water Flow Theory
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80
Refill the tensiometer
70
60
Comparison between
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Atmosphere deposition
To the surroundings
Road marking
Road material
-Dust Road salt
-Splash Vehicle deposition
-Spray
-Exhausts
Sources and
Run off Wear particles, Dust routes of
contaminants in
- Asphalt (bitumen + gravel) the road
- Tyres environment
- Road marking
Ditches Ground Water
- Sand for gritting, Chips
- Exhaust particles
- Wear products
- Dirt and Waste Infiltration, Leaching to ground water
- Salt (especially important for alternative materials)
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S9 (UGM)
20
S1 (subgrade) 14
18
Moisture content (% by mass)
12
8 the granular base and
10
subgrade of a low traffic
8 6
pavement (near the
6
4 pavement edge)
4
2
2
0 0
20/09/01 28/11/01 18/01/02 09/03/02 28/04/02 17/06/02
Date
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12
Passes
0 500000 1000000 1500000 2000000 2500000
0
5
Rut depth
development in an 10
accelerated test. 0,88 mm / 100.000 passes
Rut depth (mm)
15
Note how added
water accelerates 20
1,03 mm / 100.000 passes
deterioration by a
25
factor of 4.
30 60 kN/800kPa
35
80kN/1000kPa
40
60kN/800kPa+Water
4,16 mm / 100.000 passes
45
50
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Map of various
response regimes
that occur under
different stress
states during cyclic
loading
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m
Having introduced a theoretical framework for the
0 relationships between water and material
performance, it is now time to describe these by
-2
means of materials testing. Therefore a chapter is
set aside to present laboratory and in-situ
-4
experimental techniques used to describe
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mechanical behaviour of pavement material at
b) different saturation stages. Repeated load triaxial
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0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
testing was used to obtain both stiffness
m
characteristics and a description of the ability to
Predicted distribution of degree of saturation
under a pavement on a low embankment
withstand accumulation of permanent
assuming evaporation through the deformation during cyclic loading. As pavement
pavement is allowed (Mediterranean engineers are dealing with unsaturated soils,
climate). a) 1st July, b) 1st December techniques for the control of moisture/suction are
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250 125
Modulus, Mr (MPa)
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Costs
• traffic characteristics,
• economic constraints
• legislative constraints
Total
Costs s ts
Co Drainage
nt economics
st me
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Inv
Dama
ge Costs
embankment
Colector pipe
Rock fill
Longitudinal drainage for an embankment on “½ a hillside”
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8. Conclusions
When the WATMOVE project started in late 2003, it seemed that
it would be difficult for a European group to spend three or more
years studying the movement of water in road layers and in the
adjacent earthworks. It turns out that the subject is far more
complex and extensive than any member of the WATMOVE
study team realised. Despite having produced a substantial
book, it seems that, in many respects, the task of advancing the
topic of sub-surface drainage is hardly started! Like many other
subjects, once you begin to investigate "how", "why" and
"where", you find that there are many aspects that are little
understood and that no-one has ever tried to answer some of
these questions. Certainly there are many areas that are, as yet,
unresearched by anyone and we have tried to enumerate these
in the book.
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9. Acknowledgements
To produce a book like “Water in Roads” requires a huge
amount of effort. So this summary report must end with a very
big "thank you" to everyone who's co-operated during the life of
the project. Every one of the authoring team gives thanks to
colleagues, past and present, in their own institutions and in the
WATMOVE team, for all their many and varied contributions. The
WATMOVE Management Committee and its working groups
have given a great deal of time, energy and, above all,
enthusiasm to the task. We also acknowledge the debt to the
COST office in Brussels and to the dedicated team of scientific
and administrative officers who've helped the project in so many
ways, not least in funding our meetings. Thanks too, to the
publisher of the “Water in Roads” book – Springer. Final thanks
are reserved (in anticipation) for you – the work will have been
worthwhile when you start using the findings to increase your
knowledge and to build better roads!
Founded in 1971, COST is an intergovernmental framework for European Co-operation in the field of
Scientific and Technical Research, allowing the co-ordination of nationally funded research on a
European level. COST has 35 member countries. It is supported by the EU Framework Programme
and managed by the European Science Foundation. The COST Office is at 149 avenue Louise,
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