Indian Roads Congress (IRC) is working for more than 15years now to harmonize the IRC codes pertaining to highway bridge design to limit state philosophy. Significant progress has already been made in this regard. The code on Foundation and Substructure (IRC:78- 2014 ) is, however, still ...
Therefore, flexural strength is more often specified than compressive strength in the design of concrete mixes for pavement construction. It is not perfectly reliable to predict flexural strength from compressive strength. Further, various codes of the world specified that the paving concrete mixes ...