Methodology for Assessing and Predicting the Effects of Oil Field Development

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• Creators:
  Mason, John M. ; Underbrink, D. ; Stampley, B. ; Scullion, T. ; Rowan, Nellon J.
• Corporate Creators:
  Texas Transportation Institute. Texas A&M University
• Corporate Contributors:
  Texas State Department of Highways and Public Transportation
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Average Daily Traffic Fatalities Methodology Oil Fields Pavement Design Pavement Distress Pavements Predictive Models Rutting Serviceability Service Life Traffic Truck Traffic

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• Publication/ Report Number:
  TX-83/299-3
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Texas ; United States
• Edition:
  Phase II - Sept. 1981 - Mar. 1983
• Corporate Publisher:
  Texas Transportation Institute. Texas A&M University
• Abstract:
  In the last five years, oil field exploration and development has rapidly expanded in Texas. Because of the resulting impact on rural roads, the Texas Department of Highways and Public Transportation wanted to provide a means of predicting the present and future effects of oil field development on rural highways. The main objectives of this research were to develop a method for estimating the amount and type of oil field traffic on a particular roadway and to use the Texas Pavement Distress Equations to assess and predict the reductions in pavement service life from oil field traffic. An oil field impacted area was studied in Brazos County. There, a light duty surface-treated road, F.M. 2038, was investigated for the effects of oil field traffic on its pavement. Truck traffic was converted to 18-kip equivalent single axle load repetitions which were analyzed for their effect on 6-inch and 10-inch surface-treated pavements. Resulting pavement service lives were compared for various measures of pavement distress. Reductions in service life generally range from 60 to 75 percent. Actual loss of pavement utility varies among the distress types. Raveling and flushing dis tress produce a 75 percent reduction in service life for both the 6-inch and 10-inch pavements. Since these distresses are traffic associated, the increase in average daily traffic is primarily responsible for this loss of service. Load associated distress (rutting and alligatoring) result in approximately 60 percent loss of life. The thinner 6-inch pavement is, as expected, very sensitive to increased axle loadings.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  2-8-81-299
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/85824/dot_85824_DS1.pdf
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