A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Significant Findings from Full-Scale Accelerated Pavement Testing. A Synthesis of Highway Practice. NCHRP Synthesis 433
Full-scale accelerated pavement testing (f-sAPT) forms a vital link between the laboratory evaluation of materials used in pavement layers and the field behavior of these materials when combined into pavement structures. For many years f-sAPT provided pavement engineers with knowledge that improved their understanding of pavement materials and structures, as well as their behavior under typical traffic and environmental loading. It formed the basis for developing various theories about pavement behavior and supports most of the current pavement design methods. This third NCHRP synthesis on f-sAPT contributes to the body of knowledge by evaluating current developments and advances around f-sAPT. Its objective is to expand on the foundation provided in NCHRP Syntheses 325 and 235 on f-sAPT by adding information generated between 2000 and 2011, and identifying gaps in knowledge and future research needs. To address these objectives, the synthesis covers evaluation of the operational f-sAPT programs; discussion of material-related issues as researched through f-sAPT; discussion on pavement structure-related research using f-sAPT; application of f-sAPT in the evaluation and validation of new MechanisticEmpirical pavement design methods; and identification of the future needs and focus of f-sAPT. Research and developments conducted outside the focus period of this synthesis (pre-2000) are excluded as this has been covered extensively in the previous syntheses. For the purposes of this synthesis, the definition of f-sAPT covers the controlled application of full-scale wheel loads to layered, structural pavement systems to determine pavement response and performance under controlled, accelerated, accumulation of damage loading in a compressed time period. This is done while environmental effects on the pavement are typically controlled and measured.
Significant Findings from Full-Scale Accelerated Pavement Testing. A Synthesis of Highway Practice. NCHRP Synthesis 433
Full-scale accelerated pavement testing (f-sAPT) forms a vital link between the laboratory evaluation of materials used in pavement layers and the field behavior of these materials when combined into pavement structures. For many years f-sAPT provided pavement engineers with knowledge that improved their understanding of pavement materials and structures, as well as their behavior under typical traffic and environmental loading. It formed the basis for developing various theories about pavement behavior and supports most of the current pavement design methods. This third NCHRP synthesis on f-sAPT contributes to the body of knowledge by evaluating current developments and advances around f-sAPT. Its objective is to expand on the foundation provided in NCHRP Syntheses 325 and 235 on f-sAPT by adding information generated between 2000 and 2011, and identifying gaps in knowledge and future research needs. To address these objectives, the synthesis covers evaluation of the operational f-sAPT programs; discussion of material-related issues as researched through f-sAPT; discussion on pavement structure-related research using f-sAPT; application of f-sAPT in the evaluation and validation of new MechanisticEmpirical pavement design methods; and identification of the future needs and focus of f-sAPT. Research and developments conducted outside the focus period of this synthesis (pre-2000) are excluded as this has been covered extensively in the previous syntheses. For the purposes of this synthesis, the definition of f-sAPT covers the controlled application of full-scale wheel loads to layered, structural pavement systems to determine pavement response and performance under controlled, accelerated, accumulation of damage loading in a compressed time period. This is done while environmental effects on the pavement are typically controlled and measured.
Significant Findings from Full-Scale Accelerated Pavement Testing. A Synthesis of Highway Practice. NCHRP Synthesis 433
2012
257 pages
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English
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