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Title: MECHANISTIC ROUGHNESS MODEL BASED ON VEHICLE-PAVEMENT INTERACTION
Accession Number: 00798883
Record Type: Component
Record URL: Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Find a library where document is available Abstract: A mechanistic roughness performance model that takes into account vehicle dynamics was developed in the form of a relation between roughness and number of load repetitions, axle load, and asphalt layer thickness. The model is completely mechanistic and uses vehicle dynamics analysis to estimate the dynamic force profile and finite element structural analysis to estimate the change of pavement surface roughness for each load repetition. The model makes use of the fact that pavement roughness changes the magnitude of the vehicle dynamic forces applied on the pavement and that the dynamic forces change the road roughness. The developed mechanistic roughness performance model can be used to estimate the 80-kN (18-kip) equivalent single-axle load for mixed traffic. The model can also be used to design pavement so that it will last for a certain number of load repetitions before reaching a predetermined roughness level. Performance-based specifications can be developed using the methodology presented in this study. The model has been calibrated and verified with field data elsewhere.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1699, Pavement Management and Monitoring.
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Saleh, M FMamlouk, M SOwusu-Antwi, E BPagination: p. 114-120
Publication Date: 2000
Serial: ISBN: 0309066778
Features: Figures
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TRT Terms:
Axle load force; Equivalent single axle loads; Finite element method; Flexible pavements; Mathematical models; Mechanistic design; Pavement design; Pavement layers; Pavement performance; Performance based specifications; Repeated loads; Rolling contact; Roughness; Structural analysis; Thickness; Vehicle dynamics
Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Sep 8 2000 12:00AM
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