PURPOSES : Hollows are easily made, and bearing capacity can be lowered near underground structures because sublayers of pavement settle for a long time due to difficult compaction at the position. If loadings are applied in this condition, distresses may occur in pavement and, as the result, its lifespan can decrease due to the stress larger than that expected in design phase. Although reinforced slab is installed on side of box culvert to minimize the distresses, length of the reinforced slab is fixed as 6m in Korea without any theoretical consideration. The purpose of this paper is investigating the behavior of concrete pavement according to the cover depth of the box culvert ad the length of the reinforced slab. METHODS : The distresses of concrete pavement slabs were investigated and cover depth was surveyed at position where the box culverts were located in expressways. The concrete pavements including the box culverts were modeled by finite element method and their behaviors according to the soil cover depth were analyzed. Wheel loading was applied after considering self weight of the pavement and temperature gradient of the concrete pavement slab at Yeojoo, Gyeonggi where a test road was located. After installing pavement joint at various positions, behavior of the pavement was analyzed by changing the soil cover depth and length of the reinforced slab. RESULTS : As the result, the tensile stress developed in the pavement slab according to the joint position, cover depth, and reinforced slab length was figured out. CONCLUSIONS : More reasonable and economic design of the concrete pavement including the box culvert is expected by the research results.

이 논문에서는 3축 가력상태에 놓인 박스형 암거의 극한파괴실험을 실시하고 박스형 암거의 파괴거동 특성을 파악하고 하중증가에 따른 균열폭의 변화를 측정하였다. 현실적인 외압상태를 모사하기 위해 상부 및 좌,우측부에서 동시에 가력할 수 있는 3축 가력시스템을 이용하여 하중을 재하 하였다. 하중 증가에 따른 상부슬래브 및 좌,우측 벽체에서의 균열양상을 관찰하였으며 상부슬래브에서의 균열폭 증가량을 정량적으로 측정하였다. 이를 통해 균열폭 증가에 따른 구조손상도를 실험적으로 정량화시켜 박스형 암거의 구조내력저하지수를 실험적으로 추정하였다.