Pavement deterioration due to horizontal hydraulic fracturing and wind farm development in Kansas : final report.

Schrock, Steven D.; Udaipurwala, Mazharali; Han, Jie; Parsons, Robert L.

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Pavement deterioration due to horizontal hydraulic fracturing and wind farm development in Kansas : final report.

2017-03-01
By Schrock, Steven D. ; Udaipurwala, Mazharali ; Han, Jie

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Schrock, Steven D. ; Udaipurwala, Mazharali ; Han, Jie ; Parsons, Robert L.
Corporate Creators:

University of Kansas. Dept. of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
Corporate Contributors:

Kansas. Dept. of Transportation. Bureau of Research
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Publication/ Report Number:

KS-16-18
Resource Type:

Tech Report
Geographical Coverage:

United States ; Kansas
Corporate Publisher:

Kansas. Dept. of Transportation
Abstract:

The purpose of this research was to determine the impact on pavements and roadbeds due to the ; increase in truck traffic from oil and gas fracking activities, as well as from expansion of the wind energy ; industry, and estimate the resulting reduction in roadway service life for typical two-lane KDOT roadways. ; In addition to KDOT roadways, this research can also be used as a proxy for county-level or other local ; jurisdiction-level paved roadways. ; This research used the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide software to estimate the ; shortening of useful life of typical Kansas two-lane rural roadways using both the International Roughness ; Index (IRI) and total rutting as measures of deterioration. Five roadways from south central Kansas were ; modeled. It was found that even for large increases in truck traffic, the IRI values only showed a reduction in ; service life of from 1 to 2 years. However, total rutting showed much larger reductions of from 9 to 19 years, ; which reflected a shortening of pavement life of from 35 to 50 percent.
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C1953
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US Transportation Collection
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urn:sha256:6e16bee2fd28270ddb6403bc203aee36678689c5a1731a22d1dd6cdfe05c1634

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