In concrete block pavement, individual blocks are laid in a predetermined pattern to create a surface interlocked with joint filler that has some discontinuities rather than continuous paving. The overall structural stability is guaranteed by minimizing the rotation and displacement of the blocks. In this paper, dynamic dropped loading tests were conducted to evaluate the load dispersion capacity of concrete block pavement with various block shapes and different laying patterns. The results showed that the vertical deflection increased logarithmically with increasing load pressure. No significant shape-dependent differences in load dispersion were observed, except for the stack pattern. The herringbone pattern showed the best performance of the three different laying patterns that were studied. In all laying patterns, the ratio of stress transferred from the applied pressure on the surface to the base tended to decrease exponentially as the applied pressure increased, consisting of three phases. Whereas the herringbone pattern had the highest load dispersion capacity in Phase 1 ( ), the difference between the patterns decreased as the applied pressure increased in Phase 2 ( ), and in Phase 3 ( ) the ratio became constant even though the applied pressure increased. The block shape did not exert a significant influence on the load distribution capacity.
1 August 2016 in Construction and Building Materials
For carbon emission reduction by ports and shipping lines under sea-and-land transportation mode, to build a two-stage transportation supply chain model consisting of two competing ports and one shipping line The profit functions of ports and shipping lines were established to analyze the impact of parameters which are port emission reduction level, port unit emission reduction cost and the proportion of emission reduction cost shared by ports to shipping lines on port handling pricing, portcalls of shipping line and respective profits. The results show that the port emission reduction level and port unit emission reduction cost have a significant impact on decision variables and profits. Conversely, there is no significant impact on the proportion of emission reduction cost shared by ports to shipping lines. Within a certain range, port handling pricing increases as the port emission reduction level and port unit emission reduction cost increase. On the contrary, portcalls of shipping line decreases and individual profits decrease as parameters increase.