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New Design for CRCP Pavements
A continuously reinforced concrete pavement (CRCP) is constructed without man-made transverse contraction or expansion joints and contains spliced longitudinal reinforcing steel bars. Illinois has used CRCP since the mid-1950s. However, this type of pavement has been known to develop transverse cracks. An ICT study developed a new CRCP design process based on mechanistic-empirical principles and recent findings.