Perpetual asphalt pavements have been designed with single threshold values for the horizontal strains at the bottom of the asphalt concrete layer and for vertical strains on top of the subgrade to prevent the occurrence of bottom-up fatigue cracking and subgrade rutting. Several thresholds have been utilized for design based on laboratory and field test results. Limiting strain distributions were recently proposed for perpetual pavement design instead of single threshold values for controlling the horizontal and vertical strains. These design criteria were developed with data collected from test sections at the National Center for Asphalt Technology pavement test track. The objective of this study was to conduct additional analyses of eight perpetual pavement sections located in different climatic regions, to support the proposed limiting strain criteria. These sections were simulated in the PerRoad perpetual pavement design software to determine the horizontal strains at the bottom of the asphalt concrete layer and the vertical strains on top of the subgrade. The strains were then analyzed to evaluate the proposed limiting strain criteria. Based on the simulations, the limiting horizontal strain distribution above the 60th percentile can effectively differentiate the calculated strain distributions of the eight perpetual pavement sections from those of the test sections that failed due to bottom-up fatigue cracking on the test track. In addition, the calculated vertical strains on top of the subgrade at the 50th percentile were lower than the proposed 200-microstrain limit. These results provide additional support for utilizing the proposed strain criteria in perpetual asphalt pavement design.


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    Title :

    Further Evaluation of Limiting Strain Criteria for Perpetual Asphalt Pavement Design


    Additional title:

    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2017-01-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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