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    Open-graded Friction Courses: A View from the Wet Coast

    Dec. 28, 2000
    Oregon comprises a wide variety of climatic regions, but one of the constants in its heavily populated areas-the western third of the state-is rain. Parts of the state receive...
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    Advantages add up for HDPE pipe

    Dec. 28, 2000
    Earlier this year, the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) started work on two large roadway projects in metropolitan King County, southeast of downtown Seattle...
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    Compacting Hot-Mix Asphalt Pavements: Part II

    Dec. 28, 2000
    Editor's note: This is the second installment of a two-part series on asphalt compaction. In the August issue, Scherocman, a consulting engineer in pavement design and construction...
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    Safety First: Open-Graded Friction Courses

    Dec. 28, 2000
    In 1961, only 7% of all vehicle travel in the U.S. was on interstate highways; by 1989, that figure had more than tripled. Accompanying this rise in limited-access road usage ...
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    CONCRETE SOLUTIONS

    Dec. 28, 2000
    Projects to shed light on UTW The remarkable performance of the 1991 Ultra-Thin Whitetopping (UTW) experiment in Louisville generated much interest in this innovative concept ...

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    Asphalt

    OGFC: Learning from the Past

    Dec. 28, 2000
    Open-graded friction course (OGFC) mixes have been around longer than many contractors or department of transportation officials may recall. As early as the 1930, Oregon was using...
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    TRUCK TRACKS

    Dec. 28, 2000
    Transmissions that shift themselves have emerged as major players in the big truck field this year. While the history of fully automatic and semi-automatic gear boxes can be told...
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    LAW: The Contractor's Side

    Dec. 28, 2000
    In highway-construction bidding, rarely does a disappointed bidder overturn a decision by state or local government officials because to do so generally requires a finding that...