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Pavement Design (with examples)

Outline

  1. Pavement Purpose
  2. Pavement Significance
  3. Pavement Condition
  4. Pavement Types
    1. Flexible
    2. Rigid
  5. Pavement Design
  6. Example

Pavement Purpose

pavement purpose

  • Load support
  • Smoothness
  • Drainage

Pavement Significance

  • How much pavement?

–        3.97 million Centerline miles in U.S.

–        2.5 million miles (63%) are paved

–        8.30 million lane-miles total

–        Largest single use of HMA and PCC

  • Costs

–        $20 to $30 billion spent annually on pavements

–        Over $100 million pent annually in WA

Pavement Condition

pavement condition

  • Defined by users (drivers)
  • Develop methods to relate physical attributes to driver ratings
  • Result is usually a numerical scale

Present Serviceability Rating (PSR)

PSR

Present Serviceability Index (PSI)

  • Values from 0 through 5
  • Calculated value to match PSR

       Design Parameters

  • Subgrade
  • Loads
  • Environment

 

Pavement Types

1.      Flexible Pavement :

  • Hot mix asphalt (HMA) pavements
  • Called “flexible” since the total pavement structure bends (or flexes) to accommodate traffic loads
  • About 82.2% of paved U.S. roads use flexible pavement
  • About 95.7% of paved U.S. roads are surfaced with HMA

Its types:

  • Dense graded
  • Open-graded
  • Gap-graded
  1. 2.      Rigid Pavement:
  • Portland cement concrete (PCC) pavements
  • Called “rigid” since PCC’s high modulus of elasticity does not allow them to flex appreciably
  • About 6.5% of paved U.S. roads use rigid pavement

It’s Types:

  • Jointed Plain Concrete Pavement (JPCP)
  • Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavement (CRCP)

Pavement Design:

1. Design Catalog Method

design catalogue method

2. Empirical (1993 AASTHO)

Flexible:

flexible

 

 

 

 

Rigid:

 rigid

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. New AASTHO Method (as yet unreleased):

  • Mechanistic-empirical
  • Can use load spectra (instead of ESALs)
  • Computationally intensive
    • Rigid design takes about 10 to 20 minutes
    • Flexible design can take several hours

 

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