Finite element simulation of structural performance on flexible pavements with stabilized base/treated subbase materials under accelerated loading : tech summary.
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2011-12-01
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By Wu, Zhong
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Abstract:Accelerated pavement testing (APT) has been increasingly used by state highway agencies in recent years for evaluating pavement
design and performance through applying a simulative heavy vehicular load to the pavement section under controlled fi eld conditions
in a compressed time period. However, running an APT experiment is expensive. It requires costly accelerated loading devices,
constructing full-scale pavement structures, and operator resources. It is obviously impractical to test all potential pavement structures
under APT. In order to maximize the benefi t from an APT study and utilize APT results to evaluate other pavements with similar
structural confi gurations, a fi nite element predictive model that can simulate the APT tests is an essential tool in which pavement
distress prediction functions as well as laboratory material models can be calibrated and verifi ed directly based on fi eld APT test
results.
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