Abstract: Highway rigid pavements, such as many of the constructed facilities of the nation, have been deteriorating, some even beyond functional failure, due to excessive loading, environmental effects, and chemical attack of the ...

Abstract: This paper reports the seismic responses of geosynthetically reinforced walls with two types of backfills using shake table tests. The backfills are tire-derived aggregates (TDA) and poorly graded sand, respectively. ...

Abstract: Pumping prediction models are important in the design and economic analysis of rigid pavements. A review of several pumping models, as well as the one developed by the writers, is presented in this paper. Pumping modeling ...