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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Pavement Response"”.
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Evaluating Pavement Response and Performance with Different Simulative Tests
… tests refer to the Full-scale accelerated pavement testing (APT) and laboratory wheel tracking testing, which are widely used for evaluation of pavement responses and performance under a controlled and accelerated damage conditions in a compressed limited time. This dissertation focuses on …
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The influence of heavy vehicle dynamics on rigid pavement response
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1987.
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Dissipated Energy Concepts for HMA Performance: Fatigue and Healing
… relationship allows it to be implemented into a pavement structural (thickness) design procedure. This procedure has the ability to utilize existing pavement response values with mixture properties to generate the PV-Nf relationship validated in this thesis. It also has the future capability of …
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Adjustment factors for MEPDG pavement responses considering three- dimensional analysis and wide-base tire
The Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) provides a superior methodology as compared to its predecessor in the design and analysis of pavement structures. The mechanistic (MEDPG analysis) calculates critical pavement responses due to pavement-tire interactions. On the other hand, the …
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Methodology to Validate Traffic Speed Deflection Devices (TSDDs) Measurements Using Laser Doppler Vibrometers (LDV) Sensors
Pavement structural evaluation is important for effective pavement management and design. Traffic Speed Deflection Devices (TSDDs) provide an efficient way to collect pavement structural condition data at the network-level. However, the integration of TSDD measurements into pavement management and …
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Characterization of stresses induced in doweled joints due to thermal and impact loads
A review of literature on dowel jointed concrete pavement response reveals that the effect of uniform temperature changes was neglected based on the assumption that concrete slabs can contract freely. The triaxial state of stresses that develop at the dowel concrete interfaces due to the …
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Mechanistic-Empirical Evaluation of Mn/ROAD Mainline Flexible Pavement Sections
… this study was to use Mn/ROAD mainline flexible pavement data to verify, refine, and modify the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) Mechanistic-Empirical (M-E) based flexible pavement design procedures and concepts. Illinois has used M-E design procedures for the design of full-depth …
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Development of a Mechanistic Model for Geogrid Reinforced Flexible Pavements
… describes the development of a mechanistic response model for the analysis of geogrid base reinforced flexible pavements and to investigate the response benefit of geogrid-reinforcement. This is an axisymmetric finite element structural model that considers the nonlinear, stress dependent …
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Influence of subgrade improvement and non-uniformity on pavement performance
… fly ash increases capacity ensuring long term pavement performance. Addition of self-cementing fly ash increases the consolidated shear strength about five times. The second project shows construction operations and field results proving that stabilization of limestone screenings is viable, …
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Mechanistic-Empirical Evaluation of the Mn/ROAD Low-Volume Road Test Sections
… design concepts and procedures for LVR flexible pavements. Laboratory test results, field distress measurements, and FWD test data were used to study the effect of granular material quality on pavement performance and deflection response. The results from the rapid shear tests and permanent …
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Quantitative sustainability assessment of pavement-vehicle interaction : from bench-top experiments to integrated road network analysis
… Beside surface texture and roughness-induced Pavement-Vehicle Interactions (PVI), we herein recognize that the dissipation of mechanical work provided by the vehicle due to viscous deformation within the pavement structure is a relevant factor contributing to the environmental footprint of …
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Long-Term Modelling of Composite Pavement Performance
The rehabilitation of rigid (concrete) pavements with the placement of an asphalt overlay is a common maintenance technique, which results in a structure known as a composite pavement. The most common form of distress in this type of pavement is reflection cracking which can be due to traffic …
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Assessing the Mechanical Response of Pavements During and After Flooding
… and a threat to the load carrying capacity of pavements around the world. In the aftermath of flooding, the pavement structure could be inundated and fully saturated. The significant increase of water within pavement layers may cause weakness and induce damage with traffic loading, subsequently …
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Analysis of tire-pavement interaction and pavement responses using a decoupled modeling approach
The proper understanding of tire-pavement interaction is important for the accurate analysis of load-induced stresses and strains in the pavement structure. This dissertation focuses on the analysis of the mechanism of tire-pavement interaction and the effect of tire-pavement interaction on …
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Moisture Content Determination and Temperature Profile Modeling of Flexible Pavement Structures
… a granular base material. The strength of this pavement system is strongly influenced by the local environmental conditions. Excessive moisture in a granular base layer can cause that layer to lose its structural contribution by reducing the area over which loading may be distributed. Excessive …
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Performance-based evaluation of unbound aggregates affecting mechanistic response and performance of flexible pavements
… construction to replace unsuitable soil, prepare pavement working platform or construct pavement foundation layers. Their primary function in flexible pavements is to distribute wheel loads and provide adequate protection of the subgrade. However, the empirical strength based quality evaluations …
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Instrumented Response and Multilayer Modeling of Cold-Central Plant Recycled Pavement Section
… Industry for rehabilitating and constructing pavements in the United States. Besides that, pavement roads are public goods that bring economic and social benefits to all countries. Therefore, assessing the pavement structural condition is essential to understand the performance of new …