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History of Brick Pavements In Engineering Transportation

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This article is about highway and transport engineering, this time we talk about the History of Brick Pavements

Stone sett pavements never gained the popularity in United States experienced in Europe. American transport engineers preferred the much greater degree of standarization which could be achieved in hard-burnt bricks. Road pavements of such bricks were, for example, widely used in New York, Chicago, and the cities of the Missisipi valey where more available than stone aggregate. In 1899 an American commission was appointed to investigate the future of brick paving. An article published in the New York Municipal Journal in 1914 stated that more than 6 million square yards of brick paving had been laid

In Europe the use of brick pavements was largely restricted to western Holland, where they were widely used over natural sand foundations until the 1960s. The pavements were releveled at regular intervals to counteract traffic deformation, simply by lifting and adding more sand. Specialist gangs were used, moving from site to site

(source : design and performance of road pavements by david croney, paul croney)



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