Abstract: Compliance-derived equivalent cracks are often used in high-cycle fatigue cracking predictions for computational expediency. Its dependence on the cohesive stress zone, however, may limit general applicability under ...

Abstract: This paper presents the relative influence of design and site factors on roughness development of in-service flexible pavements. The data from the specific pavement study (SPS)-1 experiment of the long-term pavement ...

Abstract: Fatigue damage in plain portland cement concrete is a nonlinear process that exhibits two distinct crack stages: a deceleration stage (transient crack growth) and an acceleration stage (steady-state crack growth). In the ...

Abstract: The mechanistic-empirical pavement design method (Pavement ME) uses linear-elastic analysis to calculate the strain responses induced by single and multiple axle loadings, and the method relies on the concept of equivalent ...

Abstract: In this paper the writers demonstrate the inclusion of the Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP-

Abstract: Truck axle configurations and weights have changed significantly since the AASHO road study was conducted in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Emerging concerns about the effects of new axle configurations on pavement damage, ...

Abstract: The prediction of strain responses under axle loadings is critical for flexible pavement design by the mechanistic-empirical approach. The mechanistic-empirical pavement design (pavement ME) method uses linear-elastic ...

Abstract: Results are presented from a study to evaluate the relative influence of design and site factors on the performance of in-service flexible pavements. The data are from the SPS-1 experiment of the Long-Term Pavement Performance ...

Abstract: Observational or experimental studies are designed to investigate the effects of various factors on a response variable. This distinction is important because the latter studies are assumed to provide a firmer basis for ...