Development of pavement design over the past decades has focused on moving from empirical design equations to more powerful and adaptive design schemes. The AASHTO mechanistic–empirical pavement design guide (MEPDG) has been developed to model pavement structure and predict its service life more accurately. Although MEPDG has been widely implemented to design conventional pavement, it is not yet capable of predicting the service life of pavement reinforced with geosynthetics. Given the above concerns, seven full-scale test sections that were constructed at Louisiana Transportation Research Center-Pavement Research Facility (LTRC-PRF) were devoted to a structural experiment to investigate the performance of geosynthetic reinforced pavements. The benefits of using geosynthetics to enhance the performance of pavements constructed over soft subgrades was evaluated using cyclic plate load testing. Cyclic load at a frequency of 0.77 Hz was applied through a 305 mm diameter steel plate. The test results clearly show the benefits of geosynthetics in significantly reducing pavement rutting. The test section with double geosynthetic layers performed better than the other six sections studied. After eliminating the effect of variations in construction, the benefits of geosynthetic reinforcement are quantified within the context of the AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design Guide. The developed design procedure is capable of quantifying the contribution of geosynthetics in pavements to base reinforcement as well as subgrade stabilization. A design methodology is proposed that falls within the context of MEPDG.


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    Title :

    Quantifying the Benefits of Geosynthetics Reinforcement in Flexible Pavement Design Using Cyclic Plate Load Testing


    Additional title:

    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board


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    Publication date :

    2022-04-04




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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