Guidelines for Limiting Damage to Flexible and Composite Pavements Due to the Presence of Water

State DOTs are familiar with incidents where pavements suffer unexpected failure due to the presence of water. Typically, significant maintenance or even major rehabilitation is needed to remedy such damage. Past studies have identified many factors that contribute to water-induced damage, over and above those related to the paving materials. Despite the wealth of information on water-induced damage in the technical literature, there is a need for guidelines that identify best practices to limit damage to pavements from water intrusion. These best practices are documented in numerous sources and are practiced by experienced pavement engineers; however, the information has not been assembled in one convenient location. The target audience of the guidelines should be practicing engineers. These guidelines should focus on strategies to limit damage due to the presence of water when constructing, maintaining, or rehabilitating flexible or composite pavement systems. The objectives of this research were to develop (1) guidelines for the practicing engineer, in the form of a proposed AASHTO standard practice, for limiting water-induced damage to new and existing flexible and composite pavements and (2) a syllabus and materials for a 1-day training course on the use of the guidelines by practicing engineers.

• Record URL:
  http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=3626

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $349881
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 01-54

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  American Association of State Highway & Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

  444 North Capitol Street, NW, Suite 225
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  National Cooperative Highway Research Program

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Project Managers:

  Harrigan, Edward

• Performing Organizations:

  Applied Pavement Technology, Incorporated

  1755 Plumb Lane, Suite 111
  Reno, NV  United States  89502-
• Principal Investigators:

  Seeds, Stephen

• Start Date: 20140801
• Expected Completion Date: 20211231
• Actual Completion Date: 20211231
• Source Data: RiP Project 37725

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Best practices; Composite pavements; Flexible pavements; Guidelines; Moisture damage; Pavement maintenance; Paving; Surface drainage; Training programs
• Subject Areas: Construction; Design; Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01543714
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 01-54
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: Nov 20 2014 1:04AM