REINFORCED CONCRETE STREET PAVING.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 570, 24 May 1913, Page 2

REINFORCED CONCRETE STREET PAVING.

The use of woven wire mesh as a reinforcement for concrete street roadways has been experimented ■ with lately. The wire was laid upon the concrete bed, and the surface was filed in above it. making a tougher mass, and one less likely to crack from heat or cold than the plain concrete. One such roadway was laid in the summer of 1910, and has stood remarkably well. The Burface was roughened to prevent skidding of motor tyres, granite chips being spread upon the soft concrete surface before it had time to set. These were embedded so as to cause no noticeable unevenness, yet they tare a great protection in wet weather, and incidentally prolong the life of the pavement. To allow for expansion one by eight-inch boards of suitable wood are set along the gutters on edge, and at forty-foot intervals over the surface of the street. Thus the pavement is divided into monolithic blocks forty feet square. The boards are set flush with the surface of the concrete, they wear evenly with the rest of the pavement.