Material Testing and Initial Pavement Design Modeling.

Between January 1990 and December 1994, a study verified and applied a Corps of Engineers-developed mechanistic design and evaluation method for pavements in seasonal frost areas as part of a Construction Productivity Advancement Research (CPAR) project between the Minnesota Department of Transporta...

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Main Authors: Bigi, Susan R., Berg, Richard L.
Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER NH
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1996
Subjects:
Civil Engineering
*PAVEMENTS
TEST AND EVALUATION
INPUT
POSITION(LOCATION)
ARMY RESEARCH
PARAMETERS
MATERIALS
FACILITIES
ASPHALT
COLD REGIONS
SEASONAL VARIATIONS
FREEZING
CONSTRUCTION
ROAD TESTS
FROST
ROADS
PRODUCTIVITY
WATER TABLE
MINNESOTA
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA321629
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA321629
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Summary:Between January 1990 and December 1994, a study verified and applied a Corps of Engineers-developed mechanistic design and evaluation method for pavements in seasonal frost areas as part of a Construction Productivity Advancement Research (CPAR) project between the Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) and the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL). The study involved four primary components. Mn/DOT constructed a full scale pavement test facility adjacent to Interstate 94, referred to as the Minnesota Road Research Project (Mn/ROAD). CRREL performed extensive laboratory tests on the base and subgrade materials from Mn/ROAD to characterize them and their behavior under seasonal frost conditions. Laboratory tests provided the input parameters necessary for the study's third component, modeling with the CRREL Mechanistic Pavement Design and Evaluation Procedure. The modeling effort was conducted in three phases, which investigated the effects of freeze season characteristics, water table position, asphalt model and subgrade characteristics on the predicted performance of selected Mn/ROAD test sections. Delays in construction on the Mn/ROAD facility prevented the completion of the study's fourth component-using performance data from Mn/ROAD to validate the mechanistic pavement design and evaluation procedure. The report details results from the other three components.

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