Recognizing the need for a capability of rapidly evaluating new designs, materials, construction techniques, and loading conditions, The Pennsylvania Transportation Institute, in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration, has created the Pennsylvania Transportation Research Facility. The facility is a single-lane, oval-shaped, full-size experimental highway one mile in length. One major attribute of the facility is its ability to accommodate research which is cyclic in nature. The original facility, completed in 1972 as a portion of PennDOT Research Project 71-7, consisted of 17 test sections and was used to perform a comparative evaluation of four base course materials currently used by PennDOT. This report is a documentary of the construction and instrumentation for the second cycle of research (PennDOT Research Project 75-2). This construction and instrumentation was the first major activity of the second cycle and replaced four of the original test sections with eight shorter sections. The result was a modified research facility consisting of 21 test sections which will enable accomplishment of the second cycle research objectives.


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    Title :

    Modification Construction and Instrumentation of an Experimental Highway


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    1976


    Size :

    77 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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