Financial impact of fines in the unbound pavement layers.
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2014-10-01
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Abstract:This study continued the research effort on evaluating the resilient behavior of D-1 base course materials when there is limited water
access during freezing. D-1 material from the Northern region of Alaska was used, and a closed system was adopted for the specimen
preparation process to represent an extreme natural freezing process condition in which no water intake occurs during freezing. Resilient
moduli (MR) of soil specimens were measured and influencing factors investigated included four fines contents ranging from 6% to
12%, three moisture contents ranging from 3.3% to 6%, three temperature gradients (low, medium, and high) during the freezing
process, and a series of temperatures ranging from -5°C to 20°C.
The study confirmed several findings from previous study (Li et al. 2010). In addition, it was found that temperature gradient and
stress state are important influencing factors. In a closed system, for D-1 materials with different fines contents, soils tended to increase
in MR after a freeze-thaw cycle, in some cases significantly, due to soil structure change during the freezing process. MR models were
then calibrated to predict the resilient behavior of D-1 material under different temperature, moisture, and fines contents and under both
non-frozen and frozen conditions.
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