Updates to Software for Estimating Damage Due to Superheavy Loads

Tirado, Cesar; Carrasco, Cesar J.; Nazarian, Soheil; Osegueda, Roberto A.

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Updates to Software for Estimating Damage Due to Superheavy Loads

2007-10-01
By Tirado, Cesar ; Carrasco, Cesar J. ; Nazarian, Soheil ; ...

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Creators:

Tirado, Cesar ; Carrasco, Cesar J. ; Nazarian, Soheil ; Osegueda, Roberto A.
Corporate Creators:

University of Texas at El Paso. Center for Transportation Infrastructure Systems
Corporate Contributors:

Texas Department of Transportation. Research and Technology Implementation Office ; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
Subject/TRT Terms:

Estimating Finite Element Method Heavy Vehicles Infrastructure International Borders Pavements Pooled Funds Rutting Software Statistical Analysis Vehicles By Weight
Publication/ Report Number:

FHWA/TX-05/9-1502-01-7
Resource Type:

Tech Report
Geographical Coverage:

United States ; Canada ; Mexico
Edition:

9/05 – 8/06
Corporate Publisher:

University of Texas at El Paso. Center for Transportation Infrastructure Systems
Abstract:

The implementation of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) opened the borders to international traffic coming from both Canada and Mexico. As a consequence, highway networks will be subjected to trucks with new axle configurations and heavier axle loads, causing concern on the impact of super-heavy vehicles on highway’s infrastructure. This pooled fund study is aimed at providing these tools. A software package with the capacity to calculate pavement distress for flexible pavements under any type of traffic load, and to make a comparison of the level of distress caused by a standard and a non-standard truck has been developed and reported in the previous reports. In this report the refinements to that software including the addition of damage to rigid pavements are described.
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PDF
Funding:

9-1502-01
Collection(s):

US Transportation Collection
Main Document Checksum:

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https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/86476/dot_86476_DS1.pdf
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File Language:

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