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9th ICAP-Copenhagen

New Developments In
Pavement Design –
Some Issues

RPF-13,14 NOV 2002


Morris De Beer
CSIR Transportek
9th ICAP-2002-Copenhagen, Denmark

TOPICS USED IN 122 PAPERS:


Pavements
Design
Rutting, Plastic
Models
Pavement Design
Rehabilitation
Finite Element
Topic

Linear Elastic
Guidelines
Fatigue Cracking
Back calculation
Contact Stress
Thermal Cracking
New Methods, Guid.
Materials Design

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Number of Papers on Topic


PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIALS ON
PAVEMENT DESIGN:
•Mechanistic Pavement Design:
•General move from pure empirical to
Mechanistic-Empirical (ME);
•AASHTO 1993 Guide to new AASHTO
2002 (ME);
•Thin to Ultra-Thin Layer Technology
( < 25 mm to 15 mm)
•Back-Calculation - Rehab
Dr Per Ullidtz :delivered the Fourth ISAP
Distinguished Lecture entitled:
“Analytical Tools for Design of Flexible
Pavements.”
•Analytical-Empirical;
•Simulation models:
•Deterioration over time (MMOPP)-
Incremental-recursive-Spatial variation;
•DEM2D: Particulate media: resilient,
plastic and failure in one process.
DESTINCT ELEMENT METHOD (DEM)
FOR GRANULAR MATERLS- 8TH / 9TH ICAP

Dr Per Ullidtz
PERPETUAL Pavements: lasting > 50 years
Macro-Model: Differential heave-clay, ice
Example: Top Down Cracking –
Relevant to SA/SADC ??.
Cracking: Top-Down-Bottom-Up ??- UK
CAPTIF-NZ- DYNAMIC LOADS
“Shake-down” theory
Better use if WIM data- Belgium
VALUE OF DEFLECTION vs CORING- UK:
FOUNDATION TESTING : FWD and
Dynamic Plate Bearing Test (DPBT)
FWD-Thailand-Denmark
POOR CORRELATION BETWEEN BB
(Rebound) and FWD Ymax.(Thailand)
Radius of Curvature (RoC)- HDM-IV
(Greece/ ARRB).
MODIFIED CBR METHOD FOR AIRCRAFT
LANDING STRIPS
SEMI-RIGID-EFFECTIVE FATIGUE –
Belgium
CAPTIF-NZ- DYNAMIC LOADS & “4TH Power Law”

exp
F = (Actual Load/Reference Load)
Full Scale Tests and Pressure Cells: 72 km/h
- Virginia, USA
Calibrating Subgrade Models during
Compaction-Using Pressure cells- Brazil
Dr. Raj Siddharthan siddhart@unr.edu UNIVERSITY OF RENO, NEVADA, SOFTWARE: “3D-MOVE”

Strain VS speed:
Geo-synthetics in Soft Pavements- Design (NL)
Equivalent Layer Thickness Approach:
New Applications-Ullidtz
Europe: Amadeus-2000 (Francken, et al)
Value of Deflection & Coring
VALUE OF DEFLECTION vs CORING- UK
INTERFACE SHEAR- ROMANOSCHI, USA
BORESCOPE FOR LAYER THICKNESS
(Thailand)- [view layers in 22 mm dia hole, 650 mm deep]
NORWAY
TWIN-LAYER FOR NOISE REDUCTION:
DENMARK
FEM: ILLI-PAVE (ILIPAV3C)-2002
Tyre/Pavement Contact Stresses

Courtesy of: http://www.Goodyear.com


Non-Uniform Contact Pressure: Sun Lijun,
China: Simplified Modeling:
Non-Uniform Pressure: Sun Lijun, China.
Simplified Modeling:
FEM: EverFlex: Seattle, Washington State, USA
EverFlex: Seattle, Washington State, USA
FEM - BLAB/HARVEY-UCB, USA

FEAP CODE
FEM - BLAB/HARVEY-UCB, USA:
AC Rutting
FEM - RUTTING- HOSSIAN, USA
FEM – VISCO-ELASTIC-FRANCE
FEM – VISCO-ELASTIC- NETHERLANDS
Finite Element Analysis (CSIR Defencetek)

UNIFORM SIM-1

SIM-2 SIM-3
ROUGNESS MODELS- Lenngren-Sweden
THE END- Thank you !

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