This paper discusses cracking in airport pavements as studied in Construction Cycle 6 of testing carried out at the National Airport Pavement Testing Facility by the Federal Aviation Administration. Pavements of three...This paper discusses cracking in airport pavements as studied in Construction Cycle 6 of testing carried out at the National Airport Pavement Testing Facility by the Federal Aviation Administration. Pavements of three different flexural strengths as well as two different subgrades, a soft bituminous layer and a more rigid layer known as econocrete, were tested. In addition to this, cracking near two types of isolated transition joints, a reinforced edge joint and a thickened edge joint, was considered. The pavement sections were tested using a moving load simulating that of an aircraft. It has been determined that the degree of cracking was reduced as the flexural strength of the pavement was increased and that fewer cracks formed over the econocrete base than over the bituminous base. In addition, the thickened edge transition joint was more effective in preventing cracking at the edges compared to the reinforced edge joint.展开更多
The numerical manifold method(NMM) is a partition of unity(PU) based method. For the purpose of obtaining better accuracy with the same mesh, high order global approximation can be adopted by increasing the order of l...The numerical manifold method(NMM) is a partition of unity(PU) based method. For the purpose of obtaining better accuracy with the same mesh, high order global approximation can be adopted by increasing the order of local approximations(LAs). This,however, will cause the "linear dependence"(LD) issue, where the global matrix is rank deficient even after sufficient constraints are enforced. In this paper, through quadrilateral mesh to form the mathematical cover, a high order numerical manifold method called Quad4-COLS(NMM) is developed, where the constrained and orthonormalized least-squares method(CO-LS) is used to construct the LAs. The developed Quad4-COLS(NMM) does not need extra nodes or DOFs to construct high order global approximations, while is free from the LD issue. Nine numerical tests including five tests for linear elastic continuous problems and four tests for linear elastic fracture problems are carried out to validate the accuracy and robustness of the proposed Quad4-COLS(NMM).展开更多
基金the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as this work is funded under FAA research grant #10-G-012project has been sponsored by the FAA
文摘This paper discusses cracking in airport pavements as studied in Construction Cycle 6 of testing carried out at the National Airport Pavement Testing Facility by the Federal Aviation Administration. Pavements of three different flexural strengths as well as two different subgrades, a soft bituminous layer and a more rigid layer known as econocrete, were tested. In addition to this, cracking near two types of isolated transition joints, a reinforced edge joint and a thickened edge joint, was considered. The pavement sections were tested using a moving load simulating that of an aircraft. It has been determined that the degree of cracking was reduced as the flexural strength of the pavement was increased and that fewer cracks formed over the econocrete base than over the bituminous base. In addition, the thickened edge transition joint was more effective in preventing cracking at the edges compared to the reinforced edge joint.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51609240&11572009)the Zhe Jiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.LY13E080009)the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2014CB047100)
文摘The numerical manifold method(NMM) is a partition of unity(PU) based method. For the purpose of obtaining better accuracy with the same mesh, high order global approximation can be adopted by increasing the order of local approximations(LAs). This,however, will cause the "linear dependence"(LD) issue, where the global matrix is rank deficient even after sufficient constraints are enforced. In this paper, through quadrilateral mesh to form the mathematical cover, a high order numerical manifold method called Quad4-COLS(NMM) is developed, where the constrained and orthonormalized least-squares method(CO-LS) is used to construct the LAs. The developed Quad4-COLS(NMM) does not need extra nodes or DOFs to construct high order global approximations, while is free from the LD issue. Nine numerical tests including five tests for linear elastic continuous problems and four tests for linear elastic fracture problems are carried out to validate the accuracy and robustness of the proposed Quad4-COLS(NMM).
