Long-term pavement performance pavement loading user guide (LTPP PLUG).

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• Creators:
  Selezneva, Olga I. ; Hallenbeck, Mark
• Corporate Creators:
  Applied Research Associates, Inc.
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Infrastructure Research and Development
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Pavement performance
  • Service life
  • Mechanistic design
  • Pavement design
  • Highway design
  • Weigh in motion
• Publication/ Report Number:
  HWA-HRT-13-089
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Infrastructure Research and Development
• Abstract:
  "This guide addresses the selection and use of axle loading defaults for Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design ; Guide (MEPDG) applications. The defaults were developed based on weigh-in-motion (WIM) data from the Long- ; Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) Special Pavement Study (SPS) Transportation Pooled Fund Study (TPF). The ; guide consists of two parts. The first part provides guidelines for selecting and using LTPP SPS TPF axle loading ; defaults with the MEPDG and DARWin-ME software. These defaults provide a source of axle loading information ; for pavement analysis for locations where site-specific axle load spectra are not available. The second part of the ; guide provides practical guidelines that States and LTPP can use to generate additional MEPDG traffic loading ; defaults based on their own WIM data or for specific analysis purposes. In addition, this guide contains an ; operator’s manual that supports the use of the LTPP PLUG software. This software helps users select site-specific ; or default axle loading conditions from its traffic loading library and produces axle load distribution input files for ; use with the MEPDG or DARWin-ME software. The software can be used to store, view, and group multiple ; normalized axle load spectra (NALS) and to develop MEPDG inputs and defaults using agency-provided data."
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DTFH61-02-C-00138
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/26839/dot_26839_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.69 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Highway Administration ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:71fc4d93e9d2208630822e8e09d5b72f93d7efe9770f1fe7d771d988b234d69b4ee77e67eb95deebe56b78bd25c5901d8e4742bc421578999785c540fc705703