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Recent Developments in Concrete Pavements
The building of concrete roads seems to have entered upon a stage of development comparable to organic evolution; the whole is being modified to an extent that cannot now be foreseen, by changes here and there in detail, often apparently unimportant, often tentative. The main advance is an increasing definiteness about the limits of scientific knowledge. Engineers perceive more clearly than they used to, the hither boundary of what they do not know, and are scientists enough to try to keep pushing that boundary farther off, by investigation, research, experiment, even by trial and error in practice. In other words, while all the factors entering into a problem of highway design are variable, the tendency is toward a mathematical, rather than an empirical, solution of it by trying to fix the limits between which the variables may work.
Recent Developments in Concrete Pavements
The building of concrete roads seems to have entered upon a stage of development comparable to organic evolution; the whole is being modified to an extent that cannot now be foreseen, by changes here and there in detail, often apparently unimportant, often tentative. The main advance is an increasing definiteness about the limits of scientific knowledge. Engineers perceive more clearly than they used to, the hither boundary of what they do not know, and are scientists enough to try to keep pushing that boundary farther off, by investigation, research, experiment, even by trial and error in practice. In other words, while all the factors entering into a problem of highway design are variable, the tendency is toward a mathematical, rather than an empirical, solution of it by trying to fix the limits between which the variables may work.
Recent Developments in Concrete Pavements
Breed, H. Eltinge (author)
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; 91 ; 1033-1037
2021-01-01
51927-01-01 pages
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