Indiana Highway RV Torture Test
I apologize to any Indianans that might take offense to the following. In my experience, year in and year out, over decades, Indiana has the worst highway to bridge transitions in America. Worse t...
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We were shocked by how rough the transitions got the farther north we went up the east coast last March and April (2015). In our opinion, Maryland had the worst, though NJ, NY and MA were bad.
An explanation we got from an engineer in Connecticut was that the contraction rates of the bridge decking and the non-bridge highway surface are vastly different and the greater the temperature transitions, the greater the pavement bond breaks between the two. Apparently this happens more in winter when the temps are coldest.
We watched the CT highway department spend much of that summer patching and smoothing highway to bridge transitions.
An explanation we got from an engineer in Connecticut was that the contraction rates of the bridge decking and the non-bridge highway surface are vastly different and the greater the temperature transitions, the greater the pavement bond breaks between the two. Apparently this happens more in winter when the temps are coldest.
We watched the CT highway department spend much of that summer patching and smoothing highway to bridge transitions.
