CE SEMINAR I

Perpetual Pavements
Presenter: Michael Plamondon
Instructor: Stefan Neuheauser
 INTRODUCTION

• Pavement Design
• Cross Section Required Layers
• Cross Section Layer Thickness Design
• Elastic Modulus
• Current DOT Project Status
 Pavement Design
Concept

Full Depth, Deep Strength Asphalt Pavements

New Jersey Turnpike, initial 109 miles constructed in 1951, over 50 years without
any major reconstruction
• Theory
• Elastic Material
• initial theory's developed by Boussinesq
& Burmister
• Recent model developed by E.J. Yoder &
M.W. Witczak
 Cross Section Required Layers
• Mechanistic approach
• Layers Top to Bottom
• i) Wear Surface
• ii) Intermediate Layer
• iii) Base Layer
• iv) Foundation
 Wear Surface
• Required Performance; rut resistance,
durability, impermeability, wear resistance
 Intermediate Layer
• Required performance; stability, durability,
develop internal friction with stone on
stone contact.
 Base Layer
• Required performance; high resistance to
fatigue cracking caused by traffic load
bending of the pavement.
 Foundation
• Required performance; support all loading,
resist volume changes, frost heave,
seasonal soil weakening, have a low
moisture susceptibility.
 Layer Thickness Design
• Mechanistic – empirical design
• Develop thickness thru evaluation of five areas
of structural concerns.
• i) Adjacent Unbound Pavement Layers Modulus
Ratio
• ii) Sub grade Distortion
• iii) Fatigue & Surface Cracking
• iv) Maximum Surface Deflection
• v) Material Response
Adjacent Unbound Pavement Layer
Modulus Ratio
• Dependent on supporting layer modulus
• Limit Decompaction Potential
 Sub grade Distortion
• Primary source of rutting & surface
distortion
• Empirical solutions relate sub grade to
upper sub grade vertical compressive
strain
 Surface Fatigue Cracking
• Repeated wheel loading increases
horizontal strain within the lower section of
Hot Mix Asphalt layers.
 Maximum Surface Deflection

• Base calculations on the assumption that

the pavement behaves similar to a simple
beam.
 Material Response
• Cumulative Damage Concept
• Damage Categories
• Rutting & Thermal Cracking
• Equivalent Damage Concept
Unbounded Material
Bounded Material
 Elastic Modulus
• Relationship between Asphaltic Cement
(AC) strength to pavement distress.
• Micromechanics
• Current Model utilized to determine
theoretical modulus
 CONCLUSION
• Michigan DOT
• Field Study Conducted on Telegraph Rd
(US 24)
• California, Illinois, Wisconsin, Texas,
Kentucky Dot's
• Ohio & Virginia Dot's
• THANK YOU
• QUESTIONS