Earlier this summer, a stretch of road at 13th Street and Washington Boulevard in Ogden buckled under the heat, leaving a ...

Much of the United States has been under a heat wave that has millions sweltering. In some states, such as Missouri, Arkansas and Delaware, roads have started buckling because of the extreme ...

The Colorado Department of Transportation and contractor KSK, LLC have completed the highway safety project of reconstructing ...

There have been reports of roads buckling due to extreme heat in multiple states, including Wisconsin, Missouri, and Delaware ...

According to DOTD, pavement buckling is common during extreme heat, especially on older concrete roads. Roadways are built with expansion joints — small cuts in the pavement designed to give the ...

“The joints between concrete slabs were uneven, which caused a sudden jerk,” he says, adding that these roads put a lot of strain on his bike’s suspension and tyres.

There have been reports of roads buckling due to extreme heat in multiple states, including Wisconsin, Missouri, and Delaware. Why is this happening?

As Bhasin explains, concrete roads tend to expand under high temperatures. Roads and materials are designed to handle temperature fluctuations, with the help of concrete joints — lines in between ...