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Evaluation of asphalt pavement bearing capacity using SAFEM

  • P. Liu
  • , D. Wang
  • , F. Otto
  • , J. Hu
  • , M. Oeser
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • Sino-European Research Center for Advanced Transportation Infrastructure Technology

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Abstract

Bearing capacity is a key index in pavement management systems in many countries. Current assessment of the bearing capacity tends towards fast and continuous measurements at traffic speed. The conventional evaluation using stationary loads do not represent real traffic loading condition; therefore the results will inevitably lead to discrepancies from reality. In this paper a specific computational program SAFEM is proposed for evaluation of the bear capacity of asphalt pavements under traffic loads. A field experiment was carried out by using a passing truck, geophones and a Mobile Load Simulator to validate the efficiency of SAFEM. The investigation shows the variation tendency of the back-calculated bearing capacity has a quite good negative relation with the number of loading cycles in the experiment. As a result, the SAFEM is feasible to be used for the fast and reliable analysis of the pavement bearing capacity at a network level for road administrations.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFunctional Pavement Design - Proceedings of the 4th Chinese-European Workshop on Functional Pavement Design, CEW 2016
EditorsSandra Erkens, Xueyan Liu, Kumar Anupam, Yiqiu Tan
PublisherCRC Press/Balkema
Pages99-108
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9781315643274
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event4th Chinese-European Workshop on Functional Pavement Design, CEW 2016 - Delft, Netherlands
Duration: 29 Jun 20161 Jul 2016

Publication series

NameFunctional Pavement Design - Proceedings of the 4th Chinese-European Workshop on Functional Pavement Design, CEW 2016

Conference

Conference4th Chinese-European Workshop on Functional Pavement Design, CEW 2016
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityDelft
Period29/06/161/07/16

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