For pavement engineers and

researchers, it has always

been a major challenge to design sustainable rural roads with
accessible riding quality
and low maintenance cost. There is a
need to develop advanced construction technology for rural
roads.
Generally, a conventional flexible pavement with a thin
layer of premix bituminous carpet is adopted for rural roads.
Due
to
damages
caused by
poor
drainageconditions,
overloaded vehicular traffic, iron wheeled bullock carts, etc.
such pavement requires frequent maintenance. Thus, such
pavements require high maintenance cost. To overcome such
expensive maintenance, concrete pavements are used in India
for connecting rural roads with all
weather roads as concrete
pavements are more durable. But, concrete pavements not
only requires high initial cost, but can also fail due to
various
causes such as day and night variations in warping stresses,
seasonal changes in the modulus of sub
grade reaction
etc.
Thus, as an alternative for concrete pavements for better
structural performance and low maintenance cost, an
advanced
pavement technology called Plastic cell
filled concrete block
pavement (PCCBP) was developed in South Africa