New Mexico Pavement Life Expectancy
The New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) has identified the need to determine how long pavements on New Mexico facilities are actually lasting. For example, a Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) must assume a pavement performance period for all pavement reconstruction,rehabilitation, and pavement preservation projects. If the assumed pavement lives are not accurate,the resulting analysis is worthless. Actual pavement performances also needed in Pavement Management Systems analysis, such as health-of-the-network projections,and if assumed pavement performance is not accurate,then the analysis are not useful. Research is needed to study how long pavements are actually lasting on New Mexico highways, to determine the causes for premature failure or service lives extending beyond design lives, and to identify system improvements in design, construction and maintenance to address this condition.
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Language
- English
Project
- Status: Completed
- Funding: $115,000
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Contract Numbers:
C05169
NM08MNT-02
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Sponsor Organizations:
New Mexico Department of Transportation Research Bureau
7500B Pan American Freeway NE
Albuquerque, New Mexico United States 87122 -
Performing Organizations:
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
Las Cruces, NM United States 88003 -
Principal Investigators:
Jiang, Ruinan
Zhang, Jie
Bandini, Paola
- Start Date: 20080605
- Expected Completion Date: 0
- Actual Completion Date: 20100506
- Source Data: RiP Project 28783
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Life cycle analysis; Life cycle costing; Pavement design; Pavement management systems; Pavement performance; Service life
- Uncontrolled Terms: Premature failure
- Geographic Terms: New Mexico
- Subject Areas: Construction; Highways; Pavements;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01463419
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: New Mexico Department of Transportation
- Contract Numbers: C05169, NM08MNT-02
- Files: RIP, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Jan 3 2013 2:28PM