Significant Findings from Full-scale Accelerated Pavement Testing

Significant Findings from Full-scale Accelerated Pavement Testing
Author: Frederick Hugo
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2004
Genre: Accelerated life testing
ISBN: 0309069742

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 325: Significant Findings from Full-Scale Accelerated Pavement Testing documents and summarizes the findings from the various experimental activities associated with full-scale accelerated pavement testing programs.

Advances in Pavement Design through Full-scale Accelerated Pavement Testing

Advances in Pavement Design through Full-scale Accelerated Pavement Testing
Author: David Jones
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 570
Release: 2012-10-08
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0203073010

Pack: Book and CDInternationally, full-scale accelerated pavement testing, either on test roads or linear/circular test tracks, has proven to be a valuable tool that fills the gap between models and laboratory tests and long-term experiments on in-service pavements. Accelerated pavement testing is used to improve understanding of pavement behavior,

Accelerated Testing for Studying Pavement Design and Performance (FY 99)

Accelerated Testing for Studying Pavement Design and Performance (FY 99)
Author: Hani G. Melhem
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2000
Genre: Pavements
ISBN:

This report describes the experimental investigation related to four experiments selected by the Midwest States Accelerated Testing Pooled Funds Program for FY 97 and FY 98. These experiments are: (1) ATL-97-1: Comparison of SM-2C and BM-2C Asphalt Overlays on Existing Portland Cement Concrete Pavement (PCCP); (2) ATL-97-2: Comparison of PCCP jointed slabs with Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) and epoxy-coated steel dowels; (3) ATL-98-1: Comparison of an 8 in. (203 mm)-thick Asphalt Concrete (AC) with 5 in. (127 mm) AC on 5 in. (127 mm) Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP); and (4) ATL-98-2: Performance of a rehabilitation of the pavement sections of the experiment in (3). The report contains a discussion of the various experimental activities, a detailed description of the experiments and a summary of the results obtained. The report includes an overview of the facility followed by the accomplishments pertaining to the individual experiments (one chapter for each experiment).

Accelerated Laboratory Rutting Tests

Accelerated Laboratory Rutting Tests
Author: Prithvi S. Kandhal
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2003
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0309087759

During the past 25 years, the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, in collaboration with the Russian Academy of Sciences, have carried out a wide variety of activities to improve understanding of the challenges in containing and reducing ethnic conflicts, violent extremism, and terrorism. Roots and Trajectories of Violent Extremism and Terrorism provides an overview of this cross-ocean program, which has involved American and Russian scientists, engineers, and medical professionals from a large number of government agencies, leading research institutions, think tanks, educational institutions, analytical centers, and consulting and commercial firms in the two countries. This report highlights challenges addressed by the academies over many years that remain of current interest as the U.S., Russian, and other governments continue to cope with old and new forms of aggression that threaten the livelihood of populations at home and abroad.

Accelerated Testing for Studying Pavement Design and Performance (FY 2000)

Accelerated Testing for Studying Pavement Design and Performance (FY 2000)
Author: Hani G. Melhem
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2003
Genre: Pavements
ISBN:

The objective of the research was to compare the performance of fiber reinforced and plain Portland Cement Concrete (PCC) overlay when used as a thin non-dowelled overlay on top of a rubblized, distressed concrete pavement. The experiment was conducted at the Accelerated Testing Laboratory at Kansas State University, and consisted of constructing two pavements and subjecting them to full-scale accelerated pavement test. The pavements were constructed in the environmental pit so that heat-cool temperature cycles were imposed. The two pavements were subjected to 500,000 full-truck axle passes. Stresses and strains at several locations in the two pavements, as well as the expansion/contraction of the slabs, were periodically recorded during the test. The stress-strain data, as well as the location, severity and extent of the cracking in the overlay, clearly indicate that there is no benefit of including the plastic fibers in the concrete overlay. The full-scale accelerated test revealed that the thin non-dowelled overlays are effective when used on top of distressed, rubblized concrete pavements.