PRESENTATION ON INVESTIGATION ON CELL FILLED

CONCRETE

GOVERNMENT COLLEGE OF ENGINNERING , KEONJHAR

SUBMITTED TO- SUBMITTED BY-

SUMAN DASH AJAYA KUMAR SAHU

(ASSISTANT PROFESSOR) REGD NO. –2001104011

BRANCH – CIVIL ENGINEERING
SEMESTER –6th

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 CONTENT
• INTRODUCTION
• OBJECTIVE
• MATERIAL USED
• METHODOLOGY
• PERFORMANCE OF CELL FILLED PAVEMENT
• RESULTS
• CONCLUSION
• REFERNCES

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 INTRODUCTION
• Plastic filled concrete pavement (PCCP) is a unique pavement technology developed by
IIT Kharagpur for enhanced structural performance and low maintenance.
• PCCP are cast in situ concrete blocks in which there are interlocking between individual
blocks with plastic between the blocks.
• The introduction of plastic cell filled concrete pavement block technique will enhance
technical properties act as a flexible-rigid pavement, high elastic modulus, reduce initial
cost of construction and maintenance and ecological footprint .

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 OBJECTIVE
• The objective of plastic filled concrete pavement (PCCP) is to provide enhanced
structural performance and low maintenance for overloaded traffic conditions
• It is used in poor drainage systems, water logging complications of the roads, bullock
carts etc.

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 MATERIALS USED
• Plastic cell-A polyethylene sheet of 200 mm in thickness, readily available in the market,
was used for preparing the formwork of cells of 150 mm x 150 mm in size.
• Cement- Portland slag cement meeting the requirement of IS 455 (1989) was used for
preparing cement concrete and for stabilising soil and sand.
• Sand- Sand used for cement-concrete and sand-cement mix was obtained from the bed of
river Kansabati near IIT Kharagpur.
• Soil-Textural classification of soil based on the Unified Soil Classification System
(ASTM D 2487 (2006)) is inorganic clay of low to medium plasticity.
• Moorum sub-base- Locally available moorum was used for the preparation of moorum
sub-base.
• Crushed aggregates for the surface layer Crushed aggregates collected from Rampurhat
in the state of West Bengal were used for preparing cement concrete.

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 Particle size distributions of sand, soil and moorum.

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 METHODOLOGY
Procedual steps for cell filled concrete pavement are given below
o Excavation of soil
o Subgrade Compaction
o Filling of concrete into the plastic cell
o Soil-cement mix placed into the plastic cells.
o Finished surface after compaction

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 Excavation in progress Subgrade rolling in progress. Filling of concrete into the plastic cells

Soil-cement mix placed

Finished surface after compaction.
into the plastic cells
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 PERFORMANCE OF CELL FILLED PAVEMENT
• A 100 mm-thick cell-filled pavement laid over 100 mm of compacted moorum was built
in April 2004 at Rakhal Garia, a village 10 km from IIT Kharagpur.
• Usually, 10– 15 tractor-trailers carrying agricultural produce operate on that road on a
daily basis.
• The FWD test conducted on this pavement yielded an effective modulus value ranging
from 3500 to 5000 MPa for the cell-concrete layer.
• The rut depth under the wheel path was measured using a digital gauge with reference to a
fixed datum after every 500 passes and the results are given in Table 6.

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RESULTS
Table-1 Backcalculated layer moduli.

CC = Cement concrete, SC = Soil

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Table-2 Rutting data after 1500 repetitions

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 CONCLUSION
The following major observations are made:
• Rut depths for all pavements after 1500 passes of a loaded truck were less than 2 mm. The
applied loading corresponds to nearly 3 years of typical village road traffic.
• Cell-filled pavements can be used economically whereas aggregates are expensive. Soil-
cement cell layer with thin cement concrete wearing course or sand-cement cell layer with
thin surface dressing wearing course may be very effective.
• Compared to traditional flexible pavements, cellfilled pavements can be expected to
require less frequent maintenance.
• These pavements also have the added advantage of being labour intensive, and hence it
can provide more opportunities of employment in rural areas.
• If recycled plastic can be used for the formwork, the problem of disposing used high-
density polyethylene sheets can be mitigated to a great extent.

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 REFERENCES
• Singh, Yendrembam Arunkumar, Teiborlang Lyngdoh Ryntathiang, and Konjengbam
Darunkumar Singh. "An investigation of plastic cell filled concrete block pavement
(PCCBP) overlay." Road materials and pavement design 13.2 (2012): 345-359.
• ASTM D 2487, 2006. Standard practice for classification of soils for engineering
purposes (Unified Soil Classification System). United States: American Society for
Testing and Materials.
• ASTM D 599, 2003. Standard test methods for wetting and drying compacted soil-cement
mixtures. United States: American Society for Testing and Materials
• AASHTO T292, 1991. Standard method of test for resilient modulus of subgrade soils
and untreated base and sub-base materials. Washington, DC: American Association of
State Highways and Transportation Officials.
• IRC: 37, 2001. Guidelines for the design of flexible pavements. New Delhi, India: Indian
Road Congress.

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