Road base materials
Roads - Flexible and semi-rigid materials
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Road base materials
Roads - Flexible and semi-rigid materials

Author : Jean BERTHIER

Publication date: August 10, 2012 | Lire en français

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3. Road base materials

The term "pavement base" is used here to refer to the layers of material that make up the pavement body, as defined in Figure 1 , and therefore excludes the surface layers. The role of the pavement subbase is basically to reduce the stresses exerted on the pavement subgrade.

.Typical roadway cross-section
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