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Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavement (CRCP) - Executive Brief General Interest: provides practical guidance to engineers responsible for the day-to-day design, construction, rehabilitation, maintenance, and management of pavements.

Primary Topic: Rigid Pavement

Description: Continuously reinforced concrete pavement (CRCP) provides long-life performance with minimal maintenance at a competitive cost. CRCP contains continuous longitudinal steel reinforcement and has no transverse joints, except as required at end-of-day construction and at bridge approaches and transitions to other pavement structures. Continuous reinforcement is a mechanism for managing the transverse cracking that occurs in all new concrete pavements.

FHWA Publication Number: FHWA-HIF-16-025

Publication Year: 2016

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