Driverless trucks, their triple trailers in tow, drone through the sweltering days and frigid nights of western Nevada's high desert. They will travel steadily along their 2.9-km oval track at a constant 65 kph for up to 21 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 2 full years. WesTrack is a state-of-the-art pavement performance project being carried out at the Nevada Automotive Test Center. The specially built track contains 26 test sections that will provide valuable information on hot-mix asphalt (HMA) construction. The specific purpose of WesTrack's multiple test sections is to duplicate the range of materials and construction quality that may be found on the nation's roadways and demonstrate how well or poorly they perform relative to each other. Performance is being monitored by watching the development of rutting and fatigue cracking in each section.


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    Titel :

    WesTrack: Performance Testing for Quality Roads


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1997


    Format / Umfang :

    11 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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    Performance Prediction with the MMLS3 at WesTrack

    A. L. Epps / T. Ahmed / D. C. Little et al. | NTIS | 2001


    WesTrack: The Road to Solutions

    Mitchell, Terry | Online Contents | 1996


    WesTrack: Putting ITS to Work

    Ashmore, Colin | Online Contents | 1997


    Development of Performance-Related Specifications for Hot-Mix Asphalt Pavements Through WesTrack

    Seeds, S. B. / Basavaraju, R. / Epps, J. A. et al. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 1997