Highway and Railroad Engineering

Name: Zack A. Rosanes

Section: BSREM 2-2

I. A highway has the following pavement design daily traffic: 300 single axles at 10,000 lb each,
120 single axles at 18,000 lb each, 100 single axles at 23,000 lb each, 100 tandem axles at 32,000
lb each, 30 single axles at 32,000 lb each, and 100 triple axles at 40,000 lb each. A flexible
pavement is designed to have 4 inches of sand-mix asphalt wearing surface, 6 inches of soil-
cement base, and 7 inches of crushed stone subbase. The pavement has a 10-year design life, a
reliability of 85%, an overall standard deviation of 0.30, drainage coefficients of 1.0, an initial PSI
of 4.7, and a TSI of 2.5. What is the minimum acceptable soil resilient modulus?
II. Truck A has two single axles. One axle weighs 12,000 lb and the other weighs 23,000 lb. Truck B
has an 8000-lb single axle and a 43,000-lb tandem axle. On a flexible pavement with a 3-inch
hot- mix asphalt (HMA) wearing surface, a 6-inch soil-cement base, and an 8-inch crushed stone
subbase, which truck will cause more pavement damage? (Assume drainage coefficients are
1.0.)