Sidewalk that abuts curb or gutter shall have joints that match the curb or gutter joints.
Curb and gutter expansion joint spacing.
Between sidewalk and rigid structure.
Small cracks through curbs do not usually reduce the serviceability or attractiveness of curbs as long as the curbs are uniformly supported.
Space joints between 6 feet and approximately 20 feet apart as the engineer directs.
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Expansion joint shall be placed.
Left per made expansion joint.
Right two runs butted together according to smacna the best way to protect your gutter system from thermal expansion is to split any run of 50 ft or more into two separate runs capping both ends and leaving gap between the top edges of the end caps fig 1.
Joint shall be placed 1 0 from.
Contraction joint spacing shall be 10 maximum or as directed by the inspector.
The space between joints in curbs and gutters space between contraction joints or between contraction and expansion joints shall not exceed ten feet.
Expansion joints a s t m.
50 0 maximum expansion joint spacing.
Whether or not joints should be spaced close enough to control all cracking is a matter of local preference.
The space between sidewalk joints shall not exceed 125 of the sidewalk width for example.
The depth of contraction joints should be one fourth of the cross section of the concrete.
Notes type b ribbon curb notes vertical curb gutter with depressed lip type a 2.
Usually contraction joint spacing of fifteen feet 15 ft is necessary to avoid intermediate cracks in separate curbs.