Texas perpetual pavements : experience overview and the way forward.

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• Alternative Title:
  Project title: Monitor field performance of full-depth asphalt pavements to validate design procedures
• Creators:
  Walubita, Lubinda F. ; Liu, Wenting ; Scullion, Tom
• Corporate Creators:
  Texas Transportation Institute
• Corporate Contributors:
  Texas. Dept. of Transportation ; United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Aggregates, Rock And Stone Deformation Hot Mix Asphalt Infrared Imagery Modulus Of Deformation Overlays (Pavements) Pavement Cracking Pavements, Asphalt--Texas--Design And Construction. Pavements, Asphalt--Texas--Testing Perpetual Pavements Rutting

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• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA/TX-10/0-4822-3
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Texas
• Edition:
  Technical report; Sept. 2005-Sept. 2009.
• Corporate Publisher:
  Texas Transportation Institute
• Abstract:
  Since 2001, the State of Texas has been designing and constructing perpetual pavements on some of its heavily
  
  trafficked highways where the expected 20-year truck-traffic estimate of 18 kip ESALs is in excess of 30 million. To
  
  date, there are 10 in-service perpetual pavement (PP) sections, typically consisting of about 22 inches total thickness of
  
  HMA layers and supported on an 8-inch thick treated (lime or cement) base, resting on a well compacted subgrade
  
  soil. This report provides an overview of the Texas construction and evaluation experience of PPs including structural
  
  design, materials and mix-designs, construction and quality issues, and performance history. The research
  
  methodology and scope of work included data collection, extensive laboratory and field testing, computational
  
  modeling, and performance evaluations. Based on the research findings, recommendations for the future Texas PP
  
  design, construction, and performance monitoring are provided in this report.
  
  Overall, performance to date is satisfactory with no major structural distresses. However, constructionrelated
  
  joint and cracking problems were observed on a few projects. Laboratory and field experience has also
  
  indicated workability, compactability, and constructability related problems with the Stone Filled (SF) HMA mixes,
  
  which serve as the main structural load-carrying layers. Recommendations have accordingly been made to improve or
  
  replace the SF mix-designs. Recommendations are also provided for the structural design of future Texas PPs; the
  
  current PP designs were found to be conservative with potential for further optimization. The results generated support
  
  the transition to higher design moduli values, yielding a 6 or more inch structural thickness reduction in the total HMA
  
  thickness.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  0-4822
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:b2382043b934007815d74dcd7342820c742c0fa720dbbc2a7bb8be3a04627a23
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/18312/dot_18312_DS1.pdf
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