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Title:

Guidelines for Developing Performance-Related Specifications for Rigid Pavement Preservation Treatments: Diamond Grinding

Accession Number:

01626235

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Performance-related specifications (PRS) are quality assurance specifications that describe the desired levels of key materials and construction quality characteristics that have been found to correlate with the long-term performance of the finished product, thus providing the basis for rational acceptance and price adjustments. There are no widely accepted guidelines for PRS of pavement preservation treatments that correlate key engineering properties to treatment quality and long-term performance. This paper presents a concise but comprehensive procedure for developing pavement preservation PRS guidelines and demonstrates the use of the methodology with the help of an example for diamond grinding. While the relationships between quality characteristics and performance measures can be established using empirical, mechanistic-empirical, and performance-based laboratory and field test properties, the demonstrative example showed an application of the mechanistic-empirical approach. Relationships were further developed between quality measures, service life extensions, and pay adjustment factors. The expected pay curves were developed based on the quality measures and were used to establish acceptable and rejectable quality levels. The pay adjustment factors were evaluated to ensure fair payments for the quality of work produced. Although the demonstrative example presented is unique to diamond grinding, the same process can be adopted to develop PRS for other preservation treatments.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AFD10 Standing Committee on Pavement Management Systems. Alternate title: Guidelines for Developing PRS for Rigid Pavement Preservation Treatments—Diamond Grinding.

Monograph Accession #:

01618707

Report/Paper Numbers:

17-05761

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Haider, Syed Waqar
Chatti, Karim
Musunuru, Gopikrishna
Eisma, Ronell J

Pagination:

19p

Publication Date:

2017

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Subject Areas:

Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-05761

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 8 2016 12:18PM