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https://doi.org/10.3141/1778-01

https://doi.org/10.3141/1778-06

http://scholar.google.com...rter&publication_year=2001

Highway agencies currently use a wide variety of alternative design features for jointed plain concrete pavement (JPCP). These features have evolved over time based on previous field performance, research studies, and designs of other agencies. A methodology for evaluating the benefits and costs of various JPCP design features is presented here. The methodology is based on predicting key distresses and smoothness, applying a performance-based maintenance and rehabilitation policy, and then computing the life-cycle costs of the evaluated design relative to a reference design. The methodology was applied to limited case studies of selected JPCP design features for illustration (slab thickness, base type, permeable drainage layer, joint spacing, load transfer at transverse joints, and widened slabs). The effects were studied for two climatic zones (wet freeze and wet no freeze) and two traffic levels (medium and heavy). Construction costs were estimated with the results from a nationwide survey of contractors, and future costs were estimated with prediction models of distress and smoothness based on nationwide databases. Results from the case studies indicate that the general methodology is reasonable and can be used by pavement designers to evaluate a set of potential JPCP designs at a given project site to achieve the lowest life-cycle costs over the long term.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1778, Design and Rehabilitation of Pavements 2001.

English

p. 1-8

2001

Transportation Research Record

0309072425

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Benefits; Case studies; Climatic regions; Concrete pavements; Costs; Evaluation and assessment; Life cycle costing; Methodology; Pavement design; Traffic volume

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

TRIS, TRB

Feb 8 2002 12:00AM

• AASHTO DRAINAGE COEFFICIENTS FOR FLEXIBLE PAVEMENTS
• ANALYSIS OF IN SITU HORIZONTAL JOINT MOVEMENTS IN RIGID PAVEMENTS
• CHARACTERIZATION AND MODELING OF AXIAL SLAB-SUPPORT RESTRAINT
• CHARACTERIZATION OF ASPHALT CONCRETE LAYER INTERFACES
• CHARACTERIZATION OF STIFFNESS PARAMETERS IN DESIGN OF CONTINUOUSLY REINFORCED AND JOINTED PAVEMENTS
• CONSTRUCTION AND PERFORMANCE OF ALTERNATIVE CONCRETE PAVEMENT DESIGNS IN WISCONSIN
• DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, AND MAINTENANCE GUIDELINES FOR POROUS ASPHALT PAVEMENTS
• DEVELOPMENT OF RAPID SOLUTIONS FOR PREDICTION OF CRITICAL CONTINUOUSLY REINFORCED CONCRETE PAVEMENT STRESSES
• EARLY AGE STRESSES AND DEBONDING IN BONDED CONCRETE OVERLAYS
• EFFECTS OF INTERFACE CONDITION AND HORIZONTAL WHEEL LOADS ON THE LIFE OF FLEXIBLE PAVEMENT STRUCTURES
• FLEXIBLE PAVEMENT DESIGN IN MICHIGAN: TRANSITION FROM EMPIRICAL TO MECHANISTIC METHODS
• GRANULAR OVERLAYS ON LOW-VOLUME ROADS IN WASHINGTON STATE: STRUCTURAL AND PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS
• LAYER THICKNESS VARIABILITY FOR FLEXIBLE PAVEMENTS IN NORTH CAROLINA
• MEASURING RESILIENT MODULUS OF GRANULAR MATERIALS IN FLEXIBLE PAVEMENTS
• MODELING OF JOINTED PLAIN CONCRETE PAVEMENT FATIGUE CRACKING IN PAVESPEC 3.0
• OVERLAY PERFORMANCE IN CANADIAN STRATEGIC HIGHWAY RESEARCH PROGRAM'S LONG-TERM PAVEMENT PERFORMANCE STUDY
• PROPAGATION MECHANISMS FOR SURFACE-INITIATED LONGITUDINAL WHEELPATH CRACKS (WITH DISCUSSION AND CLOSURE)
• REPAIR OF ULTRATHIN WHITETOPPING PAVEMENTS
• THIN BONDED CONCRETE OVERLAYS IN ILLINOIS: PRELIMINARY REPORT ON PERFORMANCE
• USE OF LONG-TERM PAVEMENT PERFORMANCE DATA FOR CALIBRATION OF PAVEMENT DESIGN MODELS
• USING PAVEMENT AS SOLAR COLLECTOR: EFFECT ON PAVEMENT TEMPERATURE AND STRUCTURAL RESPONSE
• VALIDATION OF HIPERPAV FOR PREDICTION OF EARLY-AGE JOINTED CONCRETE PAVEMENT BEHAVIOR