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Since the early 1900s, many empirical methods have been developed for the structural design of pavements. The empirical nature of these methods was necessary because of a limited knowledge of material behavior as well as limitations in the ability to solve boundary value problems. Empirical methods may be adequate for a range of established conditions; however, it is difficult to extrapolate such methods beyond the conditons for which they were developed. The desirability of extending the range of pavement design methods to include new materials, widely varying environmental conditions, and changing loading conditions requires a more fundamental and analytical approach to the design of pavement structural systems. The method should probably be based on a rational (theoretical) basis, with the capability to predict the performance of a pavement over its useful (i.e., design) life. One of the latest rational methods proposed is the VESYS IIIA computer-based approach developed through FHWA. The VESYS IIIA computer program was used to predict pavement performance in terms of rutting, fatigue cracking, and a present serviceability index (PSI) for the Louisiana Experimental Base Project. It was found that the VESYS IIIA mechanistic analysis package, in combination with material characterization information developed from resilient indirect tensile tests, can adequately predict rut depths over a short period of time but inadequately predicts fatigue cracking. Comparisons between measured and predicted PSI values indicated that the VESYS IIIA model may be adequate for short periods of evaluation.

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Computer programs; Experimental roads; Failure; Forecasting; Mechanical analysis; Mechanistic design; Pavement cracking; Pavement performance; Ruts (Pavements); Rutting; Serviceability; Tension tests

Indirect tensile test; Rut; Rut depth; Serviceability Index

Louisiana

Design; Highways; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces

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• A RELIABLE RESILIENT MODULUS TESTING SYSTEM
• ANALYSIS OF THREE CONCRETE RESTORATION TECHNIQUES
• APPLICATION OF ASTM E1049-85 IN CALCULATING LOAD EQUIVALENCE FACTORS FROM IN SITU STRAINS
• BEHAVIOR OF A RIGID PAVEMENT UNDER MOVING DYNAMIC LOADS
• CALIFORNIA EXPERIENCE WITH CRACKING AND SEATING OF CONCRETE PAVEMENTS
• CASE STUDIES IN REHABILITAITON STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
• COMPARISON AND REANALYSIS OF AASHO ROAD TEST RIGID PAVEMENT DATA
• CONCRETE PAVEMENT REHABILITATION AND OVERLAY: ONTARIO'S EXPERIENCE
• CONCRETE SLABS STABILIZED BY SUBSEALING: A PERFORMANCE REPORT
• CRACK AND SEAT PERFORMANCE
• CRACK MONITORING SYSTEM FOR CRACKED AND SEATED PCC PAVEMENTS
• DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF RANDOMNESS INDEX FOR CONTINUOUSLY REINFORCED CONCRETE PAVEMENT
• DEVELOPMENT OF DRAINAGE COEFFICIENTS FOR THE 1986 AASHTO GUIDE FOR DESIGN OF PAVEMENT STRUCTURES
• DISTRIBUTIONS OF STRAIN COMPONENTS AND WORK WITHIN FLEXIBLE PAVEMENT STRUCTURES
• EFFECT OF A GEOTEXTILE ON WATER MIGRATION AND FROST HEAVE IN A LARGE-SCALE TEST BASIN
• EVALUATION OF TWO-LAYER PAVEMENTS USING DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS
• FACTORS AFFECTING DETERIORATION OF TRANSVERSE CRACKS IN JOINTED REINFORCED CONCRETE PAVEMENTS
• FIELD TESTING OF A MODEL FOR WATER FLOW AND HEAT TRANSPORT IN VARIABLY SATURATED, VARIABLY FROZEN SOIL
• FIELD-CALIBRATED MECHANISTIC-EMPIRICAL MODELS FOR JOINTED CONCRETE PAVEMENTS
• LIFE-CYCLE COST ANALYSIS OF OHIO PAVEMENT REHABILITATION DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS
• MEASURING NEGATIVE PORE WATER PRESSURES IN A FREEZING ENVIRONMENT
• MODEL OF SLAB CRACKING FOR PORTLAND CEMENT CONCRETE PAVEMENTS
• MODEL TESTS FOR MOVING-LOAD EFFECTS ON PAVEMENTS
• PERFORMANCE OF ASPHALT CONCRETE RESURFACING OF JOINTED REINFORCED CONCRETE PAVEMENT ON THE ILLINOIS INTERSTATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM
• PERFORMANCE OF FLEXIBLE PAVEMENTS
• PERMANENT DEFORMATION FOR FLEXIBLE AIRFIELD PAVEMENT DESIGN
• RATIONAL LOOK AT TRUCK AXLE WEIGHT
• RELATING CREEP TESTING TO RUTTING OF APSHALT CONCRETE MIXES
• SIMULATION OF CLIMATIC AND VEGETATION EFFECTS ON PAVEMENTS ON EXPANSIVE CLAYS
• TEMPERATURE AND SUCTION PROFILES BENEATH HIGHWAY PAVEMENTS: COMPUTED AND MEASURED
• THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE AASHTO 1986 NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING METHOD 2 FOR PAVEMENT EVALUATION
• TRUCK TIRE CHARACTERISTICS AND ASPHALT CONCRETE PAVEMENT RUTTING
• TWENTY-YEAR STUDY OF ASPHALT RUBBER PAVEMENTS IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA
• WAVE MODEL OF MAT FOUNDATION MOVEMENT ON EXPANSIVE CLAYS (ABRIDGMENT)