Development of Design Guide for Thin and Ultrathin Concrete Overlays of Existing Asphalt Pavements
The primary purpose of this project is to create a unified national design guide for thin and ultrathin concrete overlays of existing asphalt pavements. This consists of the following distinct objectives: 1. Study and understand the field performance history of TCOAP and UTCOAP as demonstrated by various research test sections. These include current (and future) test sections at the MnROAD facility, accelerated loading facility test sections (FHWA), and other test sections installed and monitored by various local, national and international agencies. 2. Develop a design guide for concrete overlays of existing asphalt pavements utilizing existing validated performance models, as well as new analytical models derived to address design aspects not currently considered in existing methods. The design guide will be based on mechanistic-empirical principles, including the effects of various concrete overlay and existing asphalt materials, panel thickness and geometry, joint opening and stiffness, traffic loads, and climates under which they must perform. 3. Create a user-friendly design guide software program and user's manual. The program format should be such that it could become a module in the future national Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) for highway pavements.
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Language
- English
Project
- Status: Completed
- Funding: $515200
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Contract Numbers:
TPF-5(165)
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Sponsor Organizations:
North Carolina Department of Transportation
Research and Development
1549 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC United States 27699-1549Kansas Department of Transportation
Eisenhower State Office Building
700 SW Harrison Street
Topeka, KS United States 66603-3754Iowa Department of Transportation
800 Lincoln Way
Ames, IA United States 50010South Dakota Department of Transportation
700 East Broadway Avenue
Pierre, SD United States 57501New York State Department of Transportation
50 Wolf Road
Albany, NY United States 12232Texas Department of Transportation
125 E. 11th Street
Austin, TX United States 78701-2483Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
Keystone Building
400 North Street
Harrisburg, PA United States 17120Missouri Department of Transportation
1617 Missouri Boulevard
P.O. Box 270
Jefferson City, MO United States 65102Mississippi Department of Transportation
401 North West Street, P.O. Box 1850
Jackson, MS United States 39215-1850Minnesota Department of Transportation
395 John Ireland Boulevard
St Paul, MN United States 55155 -
Project Managers:
Fick, Debra
- Start Date: 20080912
- Expected Completion Date: 0
- Actual Completion Date: 20130911
- Source Data: RiP Project 42279
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Asphalt pavements; Concrete overlays; Pavement maintenance; Test sections; Whitetopping
- Identifier Terms: Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide
- Uncontrolled Terms: Ultrathin concrete overlays
- Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Pavements;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01560767
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Federal Highway Administration
- Contract Numbers: TPF-5(165)
- Files: RiP, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Apr 22 2015 1:03AM