Estimating the variability of key pavement design inputs is essential to reliability-based pavement design. The thickness of most pavement layers has a great impact on the outcome of practically all analyses of pavement performance. The within-section layer thickness variability is investigated here, as is the extent of the mean layer thickness deviation from its design thickness. Pavement layer thickness data (elevation and core measurements) from a large number of newly constructed flexible and rigid pavement sections in the Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) program were examined. To determine the distribution type of the thickness data, a combined statistical test for skewness and kurtosis showed that ( a) thickness variations within a layer indicate a normal distribution for 86% of 1,034 layers and ( b) the mean thickness deviations from the design values may be assumed to be normally distributed for a layer having a given type and design thickness. The estimated thickness-within-layer variability values and the estimated typical thickness deviations derived from LTPP data may serve as benchmarks for use in pavement design reliability, construction quality assurance specifications, and other research studies. In addition, statistical comparisons of layer thickness variability indicators were made between the elevation and core layer thickness data to determine whether there are systematic differences between these two measuring methods. These results will be very useful to both researchers and practitioners who develop or use reliability-based pavement design procedures.


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    Title :

    Estimation of Pavement Layer Thickness Variability for Reliability-Based Design


    Additional title:

    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board


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    Publication date :

    2003-01-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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