1). When aligned carefully and only bonded to the concrete on one side of the joint, round dowels help carry vertical loads across the joint, maintain vertical alignment of the slabs and allow ...

Around 25 years ago, Caltrans was doing an experiment on the 405 Freeway in Irvine. Workers embedded metal strips in the ...

[Kampf] is a big fan of using her domino joiner, which is similar to biscuits or dowel joinery, but she didn’t love how it hid the construction of the joint. She first figured out an “off ...