DATA

Traffic : Cumulative 18 Kip ESAL (106) 8000000

Reliability (R) % 95

Standard normal deviate (ZR) -1.645

Overall standard deviation (So) 0.35

Initial Serviceability index (p0) 4

Terminal Serviceability Index (pt) 2

Serviceability loss (ΔPSI) = p0 - pt 2

Resilient modulus of subgrade in psi (M R) 7500

INPUT: TRIAL VALUE FOR STRUCTURAL NUMBER 4.6

OUTPUT: PREDICTED VALUE OF LOG10(ESAL) 6.9074919426

OUTPUT: PREDICTED VALUE OF ESAL 8081499.3543

Check ESAL Difference 81499.354349

 R ZR
50 0
60 -0.253
70 -0.524
75 -0.674
80 -0.841
85 -1.037
90 -1.282
91 -1.34
92 -1.405
93 -1.476
94 -1.555
95 -1.645
96 -1.751
97 -1.881
98 -2.054
99 -2.327
99.9 -3.09
99.99 -3.75
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Design of Reinforced Flexible Pavement using Checkmate Solution

Project : Washington County Roads

Project Description

Design Methodology

Based on

A Design Data

1 Design traffic 18 kip ESAL (W18) :

2 Reliability (R) : %

3 Overall standard deviation (So) :

4 Present serviceability index (PSI) :

Initial design serviceability index (p 0) :
Terminal design serviceability index (p t) :
Design serviceability loss (ΔPSI) :

5 Subgrade resilient modulus (M R) : psi

B Design of Unreinforced Pavement

From AASHTO Guide for the design of pavement structures, for the design parameters
as given below, the required structural number SN is calculated as:

W18 = R = So =
ΔPSI = MR =

SN =

A pavement comprising an HMAC surface course and a granular base is considered.

The thickness of the layers are calculated using the following equation:

SN = a1 D1 + a2 D2 m2

where:

a1 = Layer coefficient representative of surface course

a2 = Layer coefficient representative of granular base
D1 = Actual thickness (in inches) of the surface course
D2 = Actual thickness (in inches) of the granular base
m2 = Drainage coefficient of granular base