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Title: Research Pays Off: Contour Plots Enhance Analysis of Pavement Data Collected with Nondestructive Survey Equipment
Accession Number: 01445177
Record Type: Component
Blurb URL: Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: Pavement engineers need accurate, complete, and reliable data to manage highway pavements optimally and to diagnose problems efficiently. Drilled core holes and cut trenches historically have yielded pavement samples for analysis. New nondestructive test (NDT) methods, however, can provide greater amounts of data more efficiently and cost-effectively, without damaging pavement or disrupting traffic. With the NDT methods, however, there is the need for an efficient and comprehensive method to interpret and summarize the increased quantity of data. To solve this problem, Florida Department of Transportation engineers applied a commercially available contour plotting tool to visualize NDT data. This has proved to be an efficient method for evaluating pavement characteristics and selecting the most critical areas for follow-up destructive testing.
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Language: English
Authors: Choubane, BouzidHolzschuher, CharlesUpshaw, PatrickLee, Hyung SukMorrison, VickiPagination: pp 48-50
Publication Date: 2012-7
Serial: Media Type: Print
Features: Figures; Photos
TRT Terms: Identifier Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Geographic Terms: Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Pavements; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Sep 10 2012 3:14PM
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