Spalling

Spalling is the disintegration of concrete or heavily bound pavements such as footpaths that occurs at edges, joints, corners and cracks.

Alternate Definitions

A surface defect chiefly in concrete and occasionally in heavily bound pavements, where disintegration occurs at edges, joints, corners or cracks - Glossary of Austroads Terms.

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