The AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design program is a pavement analysis tool, which is typically used for design purposes through an iterative trial-and-error process. To help the designer with a reasonable starting point in this iterative process, this paper introduces a machine learning method to embrace the recently updated models in AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design software for pavement design. A total number of 79,600 pavement design scenarios (55,800 for flexible pavements and 23,800 for rigid pavements) were performed using the AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design software to consider various design inputs, such as: design life, traffic volume, climate zone, thickness, and modulus of pavement layers. The inputs and outputs of these design scenarios were used to develop the multioutput Random Forests model to simultaneously predict multiple pavement distresses and thicknesses of pavement layers. The results indicate that the multi-output Random Forests model can accurately predict pavement distresses and thicknesses for asphalt and concrete pavements. This tool will simplify pavement design procedure based on the models in the AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design software.


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    Title :

    A Machine Learning Tool for Pavement Design and Analysis


    Additional title:

    KSCE J Civ Eng


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2023-01-01


    Size :

    11 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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