Assessment of the Danish High Speed

Deflectograph in France
BCRA conference
04a-2 June 2005
Jean-Michel Simonin – Denis Lièvre LCPC
Gregers Hildebrand DRI
Soren Rasmussen Greenwood
 Assessment of the Danish
High Speed Deflectograph in France

„ Presentation of the HSD

„ Protocol of the assessment
„ Trials
„ Analysis of the results
„ Repeatability
„ Comparison with a FWD

„ Conclusions
High speed deflectograph
Presentation
High speed deflectograph
Presentation
 Assessment protocol

„ 3 Long sections „ 3 short sections

„ Highway „ Straight
„ National road „ Homogeneous
„ Secondary road
„ Working evaluation „ Metrological Evaluation
„ Running in the traffic „ Repeatability
„ Define homogeneous
zones „ Compare with Flash
Deflectograph and FWD
„ Compare with Flash
Deflectograph
 Trials
Short section Long Section

Trials Processed Trials Processed

A16 9 8 2 1

RN43 10 9 2 0
Round
about
RD942 6 5 1 0
Some
Rains
 A16 Short Section

Slope every 10 meters ; 8 runs; mean value and standard deviation

1.6

1.4
P2 P3

1.2

1.0
Slope (mm/m)

0.8
P1

0.6

0.4

0.2

0.0
127000 126800 126600 126400 126200 126000 125800 125600 125400 125200 125000
Abscissa (m)
 A16 Long Section (10 m processing)
Deflection basin tangent slope - Doppler sensor 2 measurements divided in 10 m zones
A 16 route, only one run
1.6
P2
1.4

1.2

1.0
Slope (mm/m)

0.8

0.6
P3
0.4
P1

0.2

0.0
135000 134000 133000 132000 131000 130000 129000 128000 127000 126000 125000 124000 123000 122000

-0.2

Distance (m)
 Comparison short runs / long run
p g
1.0
P2

0.9

P3
0.8

0.7
Slope (mm/m)

0.6

0.5
P1
0.4

0.3

0.2

0.1

0.0
127000 126800 126600 126400 126200 126000 125800 125600 125400 125200 125000
Abscissa (m)
Run 3 Run 4 Run 5 Run 6 Run 7 Run 9 Short section mean Long section
 Flexible Short Section
Slope at 40km/h: 3 runs; Mean value; standard deviation
1.5

1.0
Slope (mm/m)

0.5

0.0
24000 24200 24400 24600 24800 25000 25200 25400 25600 25800 26000
Abscisse (m)
 Flexible Long section
2.00 250

Déflexion Flash (mm/100)

1.60 200
Pente HSD (mm/m)

1.20 150

0.80 100

0.40 50

0.00 0
20500 22500 24500 26500 28500
Distance (m)
HSD Flash
 Comparison with FWD and Flash deflectograph
Flash deflectograph and FWD deflection and HSD slope
A16 RN 43 RD 942
160 1.6

140 1.4

120 1.2
Deflection (mm/100)

100 1.0

Slope (mm/m)
80 0.8

60 0.6

40 0.4

20 0.2

0 0.0
0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000
Abscissa (m)
Flash FWD HSD
 HSD Slope FWD Deflection
1.8

1.6

1.4

1.2
HSD Slope (mm/m)

1.0

0.8

0.6

0.4

0.2

0.0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
FWD Deflection (mm/100)

HSD Droite de régression : r²=0.86

 Conclusions

„ Results on short sections

„ HSD has a good repeatability
„ It can distinguish different bearing capacity level

„ Interpretation of results has to be improved

„ Results on long sections

„ HSD is able to measure at traffic speed
„ Influence of measuring conditions
 Perspectives

„ HSD needs to be improved :

„ Modification of the truck and the acquisition
system
„ Methodology to interpret the data (numerical
models)
„ New assessments to define the field of
application