Environmental Effects on Pavements, DIMAR
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1984-01-01
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Abstract:This study was completed to identify and define the interdependency relationships and corresponding interaction criteria between aging, environmental, and vehicle load effects upon and during the life cycle of highway and airport pavements and their support systems. A questionnaire was sent to numerous researchers and engineers to obtain a consensus on. the definitions of pavement distress. Based on a 67 percent return it was indicated that the "Highway Pavement Distress Identification Manual," should be used for asphalt surfaced pavements and that the "Concrete Highway Distress Identification Manual for COPES" should be used for portland cement concrete pavements. Through the use of a computerized Distress Identification and Mechanism Analysis Routine (DIMAR) program the mechanisms which are associated with distresses in flexible, rigid and composite highway and airport pavement systems were identified and tabulated. In the DIMAR program the inputs, processes, and contributing factors which related to each distress mechanism were defined and listed. The material and pavement layer properties influenced by each distress mechanism were identified and procedures for evaluating these properties were listed. Based on the DIMAR program the potential work areas proposed under Phase II, "Analytical Model Development and Laboratory Verification," were defined and stated in a separate report.
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