Flexible pavement condition prediction models for local governments by Adrain Reed Gibby
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Published: 1987
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn an effort to move toward pavement designs that employ mechanistic principles, the AASHTO Joint Task Force on Pavements initiated an effort in 1996 to develop an improved pavement design guide. The project called for the development of a design guide that employs existing state-of-the-practice mechanistic-based models and design procedures. The product of this initiative became available in 2004 in the form of software called the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG). The performance prediction models in the MEPDG were calibrated and validated using performance data measured from hundreds of pavement sections across the United States. However, these nationally calibrated performance models in the MEPDG do not necessarily reflect local materials, local construction practices, and local traffic characteristics. Therefore, in order to produce accurate pavement designs for the State of North Carolina, the MEPDG distress prediction models must be recalibrated using local materials, traffic, and environmental data. The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) has decided to adopt the MEPDG for future pavement design work and has awarded a series of research projects to North Carolina State University. The primary objective of this study is to calibrate the MEPDG performance prediction models for local materials and conditions using the data and findings generated from this series of research projects. The work presented in this report focuses on four major topics: (1) the development of a GIS-based methodology to enable the extraction of local subgrade soils data from a national soils database; (2) the rutting and fatigue cracking performance characterization of twelve asphalt mixtures commonly used in North Carolina; (3) the characterization of local North Carolina traffic; and (4) calibration of the flexible pavement distress prediction models in the MEPDG to reflect local materials and conditions.
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 1993 American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Guide for Design of Pavement Structures is a mere modification of the empirical methods found in its earlier versions that are based on regression equations relating simple material and traffic inputs. Although the various editions of the AASHTO design guide have served well for several decades, they contain too many limitations to be continued as the nation's primary pavement design procedures. The Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) procedure, on the other hand, provides the tools for evaluating the effect of variations in input data on pavement performance. The design method in the MEPDG is mechanistic because it uses stresses and strains in a pavement system calculated from the pavement response model to predict the performance of the pavement. The empirical nature of the design method stems from the fact that the pavement performance predicted from laboratory-developed performance models is adjusted based on the observed performance from the field to reflect the differences between predicted and actual field performance. The performance models used in the MEPDG are calibrated using limited national databases and, thus, it is necessary to calibrate these models for local highway agencies implementation by taking into account local materials, traffic information, and environmental conditions. Two distress models, permanent deformation and bottom-up fatigue cracking (hereafter referred to as alligator cracking), were employed for this effort. Fifty-three pavement sections were selected for the calibration and validation process: 30 long-term pavement performance (LTPP) pavements, which include 16 new flexible pavement sections and 14 rehabilitated sections, and 23 North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) sections. All the necessary data were obtained from the LTPP and the NCDOT databases. To provide reasonable values in cases where data were missing, MEP.
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Published: 1978
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