Development of a simplified flexible pavement design protocol for New York State Department of Transportation based on the AASHTO Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide : technical summary.

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• Alternative Title:
  Development of a simplified flexible pavement design protocol for New York State Department of Transportation based on the AASHTO Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide.
• Creators:
  Romanoschi, Stefan A. ; Abdullah, Ali Q.
• Corporate Creators:
  Kansas. Dept. of Transportation
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Pavement design
  • Flexible pavements
  • Mechanistic-empirical pavement design
  • Software
  • Calibration
  • Data collection
  • Pavement distress
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-KS-16-16
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Kansas
• Corporate Publisher:
  Kansas. Dept. of Transportation
• Abstract:
  This report summarizes the local calibration of the distress models for the Northeast (NE) region of the United States and the development of new design tables for new flexible pavement structures. Design, performance, and traffic data collected on the Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) sites in the NE region of the United States were used to calibrate the distress models. First, the AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design 2.1 with global calibration factors was used to compare the predicted and measured distress values. The local bias was assessed for all distress models except for the longitudinal cracking model; it was found the bias existed for this model even after calibration. The thermal cracking model was not calibrated because of inaccurate measured data. The calibration improved the prediction capability of the rutting, fatigue cracking, and smoothness prediction models.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/31819/dot_31819_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 395.52 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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