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https://doi.org/10.3141/1778-12

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

Michigan is rapidly moving toward adopting and using a mechanistic-empirical design for flexible pavements. To facilitate the transition from empirical to mechanistic design methods, the Michigan Department of Transportation contracted the development of software called the Michigan Flexible Pavement Design System (MFPDS). This software provides a holistic framework for analyzing and designing flexible pavements. MFPDS includes modules for American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) design, linear and nonlinear mechanistic analysis, backcalculation, and mechanistic design (including overlay design). The software incorporates enhanced elastic layer and finite element models within an easy-to-use Windows user interface and can be used on a routine basis. New response models to predict fatigue life and rut depth also were developed as part of this effort and are included in MFPDS. New pavements and overlays may be designed to limit predicted distresses to user-specified threshold values. The features of the mechanistic analysis and design approaches used are presented.

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

English

p. 100-106

2001

Transportation Research Record

0309072425

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Backcalculation; Depth; Fatigue (Mechanics); Finite element method; Flexible pavements; Mechanistic design; Overlays (Pavements); Pavement design; Rutting; Software

Elastic layer analysis

Michigan

Data and Information Technology; Design; 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
• BENEFITS AND COSTS OF JOINTED PLAIN CONCRETE PAVEMENT DESIGN FEATURES
• 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
• 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