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Pavement Design - 1 PDF
Pavement Design - 1 PDF
Guest Lecturer
Dr. Sirous Alavi, P.E.
SIERRA TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERS, INC.
1005 Terminal Way, Suite 125
Reno, Nevada 89502
Topics
Introduction
– Design Factors
– Pavement Types
Fundamentals of Pavement Design
– AASHTO
– Asphalt Institute
Design Factors
Climate Traffic
INTRODUCTION
Pavement
Structure
Material
Properties Pavement
Condition
Climate
Temperature
INTRODUCTION
Moisture
Material Properties
Nondestructive Testing
INTRODUCTION
Uses
• Basis for estimating in-situ properties
• Estimate of structural capacity
• Assess variability
• Rehabilitation (overlay) design
Ground Penetrating
Radar (GPR)
Underground
INTRODUCTION
cross-sectional
image
Burst of radio-
frequency energy
radiated into the
ground to detect
discontinuities in
the ground
Portable Seismic Pavement
Analyzer (PSPA)
Operating
INTRODUCTION
principle is based
on generating
and detecting
stress waves in
the pavement
structure
Magnetic Induction
Tomography (MIT)
Sensor unit emits
INTRODUCTION
electromagnetic
pulses and
detects the
induced magnetic
field
Field and Laboratory
Testing
Drilling & Sampling
INTRODUCTION
Triaxial
Fatigue
Drilling and Sampling
Cores
INTRODUCTION
Soils
Beams
California Bearing
Ratio (CBR)
Applying load to a
INTRODUCTION
material's Testing Head
resistance to
Sample
deformation as a
function of the ratio Rubber Membrane
Base
of transmitted Fluid Under Pressure
lateral pressure to
applied vertical
pressure
Dynamic Cone
Penetrometer (DCP)
Supply kinetic
INTRODUCTION
energy to the
penetrometer,
which causes
it to move a
distance
through the
soil
Triaxial Testing
available to
determine the
stress-strain
properties of soil
Fatigue Testing
Cyclic loading to test
INTRODUCTION
specimen
Load can be a repeated
application of a fixed load
or simulation of in-service
loads
Load may be repeated
millions of cycles at
predefined loading time
Traffic
INTRODUCTION
Critical factor
Weigh-In-Motion (WIM)
INTRODUCTION
Classifiers
INTRODUCTION
– Road Tubes, Inductance
Loops, Piezo Sensor, Video
Types of Equipment
Counters
INTRODUCTION
– Road Tubes, Inductance
Loops, Piezo Sensor, Video
Pavement Condition
Profiler
INTRODUCTION
Automated
Distress Survey
Manual Distress Survey
Profiler
Comprehensive
INTRODUCTION
system that is used
to collect roadway
surface data for
determining the ride
quality
Automated Distress Survey
Inspection of
INTRODUCTION
pavement and
identifying distresses
High speed
equipment that takes
“pictures” of
roadway
Processed manually
or by computer
Automated Distress Survey
INTRODUCTION
Images are
Images are Images are stored
taken of digitized
pavement
pavement type
– Rigid, Flexible
Distress Identification Manual
(DIM)
Rigid Pavement
Corner Breaks
INTRODUCTION
Durability “D”
Cracking
Longitudinal
Transverse
Rigid Pavement
Joint Seal
INTRODUCTION
Damage
Longitudinal
Joint Spalling
Transverse Joint
Spalling
Rigid Pavement
Map Cracking
INTRODUCTION
Scaling
Polished
Aggregate
Flexible Pavement
Fatigue Cracking
INTRODUCTION
Block Cracking
Flexible Pavement
Longitudinal
INTRODUCTION
Transverse
Flexible Pavement
Potholes
INTRODUCTION
Patches
Flexible Pavement
Rutting
INTRODUCTION
Shoving
Flexible Pavement
Bleeding
INTRODUCTION
Raveling
Flexible Pavement
Water
INTRODUCTION
Bleeding &
Pumping
Types of Pavement
Rigid Pavements
INTRODUCTION
portland cement
concrete (PCC)
Analyzed by the
Plate Theory
Jointed, PCC
of bitumininous
materials SURFACE (AC)
“Flexible" since the BASE
total pavement
structure "bends" SUBBASE (OPTIONAL)
due to traffic loads SUBGRADE
Structure is generally
composed of several
layers of materials
INTRODUCTION
Questions