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Direction of Joints Types of Joints
• FAA 150-5320-6F • Isolation joints - Often also referred to as edge joint,
thickened edge. For load transfer.
- Use at intersections, change of
directions, edge of structures,
• Longitudinal joints separation to a large area of slabs
• Transverse joints - Thickened edge is 1.25 x nominal
depth
• Typically follow the direction of
travel
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Types of Joints Types of Joints
• Contraction joints • Provide controlled cracking, reduce • Contraction joints – keyed • Used in NZ specifically, not used
warping elsewhere
• Can be used for both longitudinal and • The keyway dimension has been
transverse joints
designed specifically and can’t be
• Dowel frames placed during the pour changed
• Dowelled transverse joints – NZ • Steel formwork is required
• Dowelled longitudinal joints –
AU/UK/US/Asia • For longitudinal joints only
• Dummy/aggregate interlock transverse
joints – AU/UK/US/Asia
• Hinged/tied – similar to dowelled but for
thinner slabs
• Tied and dowelled or keyed – generally
the first slab adjacent to asphalt/grass
Another type: tied and dowelled joint
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Types of Joints Type of Joints
• Construction joints • Used when two adjacent slabs are • Sinusoidal
poured at different times
• Can be used for both transverse and
longitudinal joints
• Typically dowelled
• Butt joint for light aircraft <13t on
stablised bases (rare for our work)
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Types of Joints – not used for airports but FYI Types of Joints
• Dowel plates • NZ Practice – keyed longitudinal
joints and dowelled transverse
joints
• Elsewhere – dowelled
longitudinal joints and sawn • Sawcut is between 1/3 to 1/4 of
transverse joints (aggregate slab depth
interlock)
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Layout and Spacing Dowels
• Slab size/spacing is dependent on thickness • Dowel size is dependent on thickness
and the supporting base
• Dowels should be placed mid-height and equal embedment
• Note that the spacing shown is for
• One half covered with densotape or inside dowel sleeve
longitudinal, transverse spacing can be longer
but generally keep max at 6m.
• Slab sizes don’t have to be square.
Unreinforced as long as ratio is kept at 1.25
• Odd shaped or out of ratio to be reinforced
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Dowels Joint Details
• Where dowels are placed on two adjacent • One dowel is 300mm from edge • Construction joint Contraction joint Isolation/Expansion joint
faces • The other dowel is 600mm from edge (for a (slabs poured at different times, (slabs poured together require deep sawcut (slabs poured at different time and need
600mm long dowel) clean face separation) typically, 1/3 depth, random cracking) full separation, clean face separation)
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Joint Details
• AC/Concrete
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