Guide for the Local Calibration of the Mechanistic-empirical Pavement Design Guide
Guide for the Local Calibration of the Mechanistic-empirical Pavement Design Guide

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Publisher: AASHTO

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1560514493

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This guide provides guidance to calibrate the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) software to local conditions, policies, and materials. It provides the highway community with a state-of-the-practice tool for the design of new and rehabilitated pavement structures, based on mechanistic-empirical (M-E) principles. The design procedure calculates pavement responses (stresses, strains, and deflections) and uses those responses to compute incremental damage over time. The procedure empirically relates the cumulative damage to observed pavement distresses.

Consideration of Preservation in Pavement Design and Analysis Procedures
Consideration of Preservation in Pavement Design and Analysis Procedures

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Published: 2015

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9780309308823

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"TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 810: Consideration of Preservation in Pavement Design and Analysis Procedures explores the effects of preservation on pavement performance and service life and describes three different approaches for considering these effects in pavement design and analysis procedures. The report may serve as a basis for developing procedures for incorporating preservation in the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide: A Manual of Practice (MEPDG) and the AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design software. Initially, the scope of this project intended to develop procedures for incorporating pavement preservation treatments into the MEPDG design analysis process that would become part of the MEPDG Manual of Practice. However, it was determined that sufficient data were not available to support the development of such procedures. Appendices A through I are available online only." --

Implementing the AASHTO Mechanistic-empirical Pavement Design Guide in Missouri
Implementing the AASHTO Mechanistic-empirical Pavement Design Guide in Missouri

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Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

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Volume I summarizes the entire research effort and documents findings from a review of MEPDG-related literature, an assessment of MoDOT's MEPDG input data needs, MoDOT's laboratory and field testing efforts, sensitivity analysis using MoDOT specific inputs, and model validation and calibration tasks. In addition, Volume I also discusses the steps MoDOT could undertake in the future to fully implement the MEPDG. Volume II presents a section-by-section comparison of the predicted and measured distresses for MoDOT-specific LTPP and State Pavement Management System sections for HMA pavements and JPCP.