Pavement Structural Capacity from Traffic Speed Deflectometer for Network Level Pavement Management System Application

Transportation Research Record - Tập 2673 Số 2 - Trang 456-465 - 2019
Mahdi Nasimifar1, Senthilmurugan Thyagarajan2, Sarah Chaudhari3, Nadarajah Sivaneswaran1
1Federal Highway Administration, Turner Fairbank Highway Research Center, McLean, VA
2ESC Inc., Turner Fairbank Highway Research Center, McLean, VA
3Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

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Structural number (SN) represents the structural capacity of a flexible pavement system to sustain anticipated traffic and is among the structural indices most commonly used by pavement design engineers in the U.S. Effective structural number (SNeff) is an indicator of structural capacity of in-service pavement sections and is conventionally estimated from nondestructive testing (NDT) device data such as falling weight deflectometers (FWDs) using methods such as suggested by AASHTO. In addition to pavement design, structural condition is a critical input for the selection of maintenance and rehabilitation strategies in pavement management system (PMS) application. However, use of SN in network level application has not been practical because of limitations of FWD such as stop-and-go operation, lane closures, and low testing frequency. The traffic speed deflectometer (TSD), a continuous deflection device, has recently been gaining worldwide application as a reliable NDT device for network level PMS applications. The objective of this study is to develop a practical approach to compute and utilize SN of in-service flexible pavements from TSD data for network level PMS applications. The study is based on the fundamental that, for the same pavement, SNeff from the TSD using the proposed method should be in good agreement with SNeff from the FWD using AASHTO method. The developed method was field validated with TSD and FWD data collected at in-service pavement sections. In addition, the use of structural number ratio, defined as a ratio of SNeff to required SN, in network level prioritization of structural capacity improvements was illustrated.

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Transportation Research Record

Tập 2673 Số 2

456-465

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