PENELITIAN KUALITAS PAVING BERDASARKAN CODE BS 6717 DAN BS EN 1338 (Research Quality Of Paving Based On Code BS 6717 And BS EN 1338)

Abstract

Paving blocks are building material products that used as an alternative to pave land surfaces . Quality of paving blocks according to SNI 03-0691-1989 and BS 6717 was determined based on its compressive strength. But on field, it can be seen that the cracking pattern is different with the cracking pattern caused by compressive strength in the laboratory. Paving blocks tested by compressive strength, crack occured on around edge of paving while on the field, cracking occured across in the middle of the paving. Therefore, the BS EN 1338 recommend for testing of paving block quality by using tensile splitting test. This final assignment research for the quality test of paving using compressive test based on BS 6717 and tensile splitting test based on BS EN 1338. The testing of paving blocks used samples with a planned quality of 400 kg/cm2 and 500 kg/cm2 with dimension 21 x 10.5 x 8 cm and the total sample are 128 paving blocks. Based on the result of testing, the paving block samples were able to fulfil the terms of BS 6717 and BS EN 1338 requirements. And also it is included in the first quality paving based on SNI 03-0691-1989. Keywords; paving block, compressive strength, tensile splitting test