Requirements To make good a 3.4km stretch of the motorway’s eastbound carriageway which had been built with an experimental 200mm thick base course of fly ash stabilised gravel. Over time, the base course had developed considerable strength, turning from a flexible into a semi rigid pavement. Twenty five years on, the bitumen bound layers above the base course displayed extensive reflected cracking. Solution The base course was left in situ

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