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Port of Long Beach Middle Harbor Terminal: Modern Container Terminal Pavement Design and Construction
The middle harbor terminal pavement design effort focused upon the development of the most accurate design input relationships needed for the design methodology. Major effort was placed upon the analyses for the geotechnical investigation, selection of typical quality levels of properties for a variety of pavement layer materials, traffic analysis associated with each specific design area, and the selection of plausible unit material costs, postulated future maintenance criterion, and cost stream for each pavement alternative for use into the life cycle cost analysis. The team compared life cycle costs for over 4,560 pavement sections in 10 different design areas to identify which pavement construction approaches were the most reliable and cost effective. The design team established an innovative geotechnical approach centered on the concepts of partially saturated soils where selection of soil support values would be based on in-place moisture conditions in lieu of assuming the saturated (worst case) conditions. Information from multiple sources were incorporated to establish theoretical subgrade moisture profiles and evaluated at various seasons. The actual data collected was compared to the theoretical profiles and reasonable support values were established based on the improved understanding of the overall soils and moisture conditions.
Port of Long Beach Middle Harbor Terminal: Modern Container Terminal Pavement Design and Construction
The middle harbor terminal pavement design effort focused upon the development of the most accurate design input relationships needed for the design methodology. Major effort was placed upon the analyses for the geotechnical investigation, selection of typical quality levels of properties for a variety of pavement layer materials, traffic analysis associated with each specific design area, and the selection of plausible unit material costs, postulated future maintenance criterion, and cost stream for each pavement alternative for use into the life cycle cost analysis. The team compared life cycle costs for over 4,560 pavement sections in 10 different design areas to identify which pavement construction approaches were the most reliable and cost effective. The design team established an innovative geotechnical approach centered on the concepts of partially saturated soils where selection of soil support values would be based on in-place moisture conditions in lieu of assuming the saturated (worst case) conditions. Information from multiple sources were incorporated to establish theoretical subgrade moisture profiles and evaluated at various seasons. The actual data collected was compared to the theoretical profiles and reasonable support values were established based on the improved understanding of the overall soils and moisture conditions.
Port of Long Beach Middle Harbor Terminal: Modern Container Terminal Pavement Design and Construction
Wylie, Kenneth W. (author) / Le, Tristan (author)
14th Triennial International Conference ; 2016 ; New Orleans, LA
Ports 2016 ; 183-192
2016-06-06
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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