Abstract: The Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP) fatigue crack initiation life prediction model was based on a sophisticated analysis of the results of intensive bending beam fatigue tests under controlled stress and controlled ...

Abstract: It is widely known that pavement fatigue life is often greater than that predicted based on laboratory bending beam or indirect tensile fatigue tests. Among many factors contributing to this difference, the effect of sample ...

Abstract: A two-step approach is proposed to predict the modulus of asphalt concrete from existing micromechanical models. The asphalt concrete microstructure is represented by a two-phase model, which consists of a large spherical ...

Abstract: The classical Westergaard idealization of the rigid pavement system assumes that the slab-on-grade can be modeled as a thin elastic plate on a bed of springs. Implicit in this assumption is the Kirchhoff (or thin) plate ...