Professional Documents
Culture Documents
CE 453 Lecture 28
1
Objectives
Understand and complete ESAL
calculation
Know variables involved in and be
able to calculate required thickness
of rigid and flexible pavements
2
AASHTO Pavement Design
Method Considerations
Pavement Performance
Traffic
Roadbed Soil
Materials of Construction
Environment
Drainage
Reliability
Life-Cycle Costs
Shoulder Design
3
Two Categories of Roadway Pavements
Rigid Pavement
Flexible Pavement
4
Advantages of Rigid Pavement
Good durability
Long service life
Withstand repeated flooding and
subsurface water without deterioration
5
Disadvantages of Rigid Pavement
6
Flexible Pavement Typical
Applications
Traffic lanes
Auxiliary lanes
Ramps
Parking areas
Frontage roads
Shoulders
7
Advantages to Flexible Pavement
9
Basic AASHTO Flexible
Pavement Design Method
11
Variables included in
Nomographs
Reliability, R
Incorporates a degree of certainty into
design process
Ensures various design alternatives will
last the analysis period
Resilient Modulus for Roadbed Soil,
MR
Generally obtained from laboratory
testing
12
Variables included in
Nomographs
Effective Modulus of Sub-Grade Reaction,
k
Considers:
1. Sub-base type
2. Sub-base thickness
3. Loss of support
4. Depth to rigid foundation
Drainage Coefficient, mi
Use in layer thickness determination
Applies only to base and sub-base
See Tables 20.15 (flexible) and 21.9 (rigid)
13
14
15
Other Growth Rates
Multiple payment compound amount
factor, with i = growth rate
G = [(1+i)n-1]/i
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
Flexible Pavement Design
Pavement structure is a multi-layered elastic
system, material is characterized by certain
properties
Modulus of elasticity
Resilient modulus
Poisson ratio
Wheel load causes stress distribution (fig 20.2)
Horizontal: tensile or compressive
Vertical: maximum are compressive, decrease with
depth
Temperature distribution: affects magnitude of
stresses
27
Components
29
Sensitivity Analysis
30
OTHER ISSUES
Drainage
Joints
Grooving (noise vs. hydroplaning)
Rumble strips
Climate
Level and type of usage
31
FAILURE EXAMPLES
Primarily related to design or life-
cycle, not construction
All images from Distress
Identification Manual for the Long-
Term Pavement Performance
Program, Publication No. FHWA-RD-
03-031, June 2003
32
FATIGUE CRACKING
33
RUTTING
34
SHOVING
35
PUMPING
36
EXAMPLES
http://training.ce.washington.edu
/wsdot/modules/09_pavement_evalua
tion/09-7_body.htm
http://training.ce.washington.edu
/wsdot/modules/09_pavement_evalua
tion/09-8_body.htm
37