Pavement rehabilitation is a major activity for all highway agencies.Accurate and efficient measurement of the rehabilitated pavement performances becomes more and more important in this procedure.In the last 10 years...Pavement rehabilitation is a major activity for all highway agencies.Accurate and efficient measurement of the rehabilitated pavement performances becomes more and more important in this procedure.In the last 10 years,significant improvements have been made in pavement nondestructive evaluation.NDT(non-destructive testing)has gained popularity because of its advantage in comparison to laboratory testing.Some of these advantages include minimal or no damage to structure,in-situ full-scale testing,relatively low operational cost,and short test duration.The INDOT(Indiana Department of Transportation)has a project level pavement evaluation program that began several years ago.This project level evaluation program employs FWD(falling weight deflectometer),GPR(ground penetration radar)and video logging.The program provides valuable information about pavement performance characteristics and offers useful tools for developing pavement rehabilitation strategies,specifically overlays and pavement underseals.On the other hand,the state of Indiana had rehabilitated its flexible,rigid or composite pavement almost exclusively with asphalt.This AC(asphalt concrete)overlay can improve the condition of existing pavement and extend the service life of the existing pavement structure.This paper thus describes the experiences of pavement overlay with AC thickness design for the INDOT(Indiana State Department of Transportation)using the AASHTO(American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials)1993 Guide,the MEPDG(Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide).In order to do that,backcalculation program was compared and evaluated to obtain subgrade resilient modulus and k value for pavement rehabilitation using FWD data.Video logging provides IRI(international roughness index)and rut depth for existing pavement condition and GPR provides thickness or pavement bonding conditions in pavement.Emphasis is placed on observations and issues encountered using the current AASHTO 1993 Guide and the MEPDG.展开更多
Based on system identification theory and FWD testing data, the effect of thickness error on backcalculating pavement layer moduli is studied and the method of singular value decomposition (SVD) is presented to solve ...Based on system identification theory and FWD testing data, the effect of thickness error on backcalculating pavement layer moduli is studied and the method of singular value decomposition (SVD) is presented to solve the morbidity problem of sensitivity matrix in this paper.The results show that the thickness error has great effects on the backcalculated pavement layer moduli. The error of backcalculated moduli can be controlled within the range of ±15% by limiting the thickness error within the range of ±5%.展开更多
A comparative subgrade moduli study is carried out by static and dynamic deflection methods using lightweight deflectometer and conventional Benkelman beam deflec- tometer on low volume road. Field and laboratory test...A comparative subgrade moduli study is carried out by static and dynamic deflection methods using lightweight deflectometer and conventional Benkelman beam deflec- tometer on low volume road. Field and laboratory tests are performed at 40 test locations on in-service road of 2 km stretch that contains three common types of cohesive soils （CH, CI, and CL）. Pavement static and dynamic responses are estimated to ascertain static, backcalculated, and composite moduli of subgrade. The backcalculated and composite moduli of subgrade is validated at given moisture content using repeated triaxial test. Static moduli values are on lower side as compared with dynamic moduli values whereas the composite, and laboratory moduli of subgrade are approximately consistent with 2% to 7% variation, respectively. Correlation analyses between static and dynamic moduli of different types of subgrade soils depict good correlation of determination （R2） varies between 0.75 and 0.91. Subsequently, validation of static moduli with California bearing ratio （CBR） related subgrade moduli shows moderate correlation of 0.67 to 0.74 whereas dynamic moduli shows good correlation of 0.74 to 0.93 for different types of soils, respectively. Therefore, the comparative analysis shows that lightweight deflectometer provides reliable subgrade moduli values, and it can be used as a quick subgrade strength evaluating tool for low volume roads.展开更多
文摘Pavement rehabilitation is a major activity for all highway agencies.Accurate and efficient measurement of the rehabilitated pavement performances becomes more and more important in this procedure.In the last 10 years,significant improvements have been made in pavement nondestructive evaluation.NDT(non-destructive testing)has gained popularity because of its advantage in comparison to laboratory testing.Some of these advantages include minimal or no damage to structure,in-situ full-scale testing,relatively low operational cost,and short test duration.The INDOT(Indiana Department of Transportation)has a project level pavement evaluation program that began several years ago.This project level evaluation program employs FWD(falling weight deflectometer),GPR(ground penetration radar)and video logging.The program provides valuable information about pavement performance characteristics and offers useful tools for developing pavement rehabilitation strategies,specifically overlays and pavement underseals.On the other hand,the state of Indiana had rehabilitated its flexible,rigid or composite pavement almost exclusively with asphalt.This AC(asphalt concrete)overlay can improve the condition of existing pavement and extend the service life of the existing pavement structure.This paper thus describes the experiences of pavement overlay with AC thickness design for the INDOT(Indiana State Department of Transportation)using the AASHTO(American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials)1993 Guide,the MEPDG(Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide).In order to do that,backcalculation program was compared and evaluated to obtain subgrade resilient modulus and k value for pavement rehabilitation using FWD data.Video logging provides IRI(international roughness index)and rut depth for existing pavement condition and GPR provides thickness or pavement bonding conditions in pavement.Emphasis is placed on observations and issues encountered using the current AASHTO 1993 Guide and the MEPDG.
文摘Based on system identification theory and FWD testing data, the effect of thickness error on backcalculating pavement layer moduli is studied and the method of singular value decomposition (SVD) is presented to solve the morbidity problem of sensitivity matrix in this paper.The results show that the thickness error has great effects on the backcalculated pavement layer moduli. The error of backcalculated moduli can be controlled within the range of ±15% by limiting the thickness error within the range of ±5%.
文摘A comparative subgrade moduli study is carried out by static and dynamic deflection methods using lightweight deflectometer and conventional Benkelman beam deflec- tometer on low volume road. Field and laboratory tests are performed at 40 test locations on in-service road of 2 km stretch that contains three common types of cohesive soils （CH, CI, and CL）. Pavement static and dynamic responses are estimated to ascertain static, backcalculated, and composite moduli of subgrade. The backcalculated and composite moduli of subgrade is validated at given moisture content using repeated triaxial test. Static moduli values are on lower side as compared with dynamic moduli values whereas the composite, and laboratory moduli of subgrade are approximately consistent with 2% to 7% variation, respectively. Correlation analyses between static and dynamic moduli of different types of subgrade soils depict good correlation of determination （R2） varies between 0.75 and 0.91. Subsequently, validation of static moduli with California bearing ratio （CBR） related subgrade moduli shows moderate correlation of 0.67 to 0.74 whereas dynamic moduli shows good correlation of 0.74 to 0.93 for different types of soils, respectively. Therefore, the comparative analysis shows that lightweight deflectometer provides reliable subgrade moduli values, and it can be used as a quick subgrade strength evaluating tool for low volume roads.
