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National Trends in Pavement Design
Southeastern StatesPavement Management Association
Pavement Management and Design
May 11, 2009New Orleans, Louisiana
Gary CrawfordFederal Highway [email protected]
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First Engineered Road
Fine Dry Soil (Well-compacted)Squared Stones
Concrete(Stone & othermaterial withLime)
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Roman Roads
• Roman Empire built over 3000 miles ofroads in Britain alone by 200 A.D.
• Used ditches to aid in drainage• Varied thickness over weaker soils• Indicated that Romans had some
understanding of basic soil mechanics
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First Modern Roads
• 1764 France (Tresaguet)• Labor costs too high; smaller stones, thinner sections
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First Modern Roads
Use of Tar and Asphalt• 1830’s USA - England (McAdam)• Impervious surface; asphalt/tar mixed hot; sandadded to fill voids
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First Concrete Pavement
• 1891 George Bartholomew built first concrete pavement in Bellefontaine, Ohio
• 8-ft.-wide strip of Main Street
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First Concrete Pavement
Rensselaer County, New York, 1908 --farm-to-market thoroughfares.
Early dump truck hauls materials to paving site.
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Concrete Design History
• 1916 – Typical Pavements 5 – 9” • 1906/1918 – Patent for skewed jts• 1920 – First CRCP in MD• 1970 – 15 states had built CRCP sections• <1922 - No jointed pavements, thickened
center section to prevent cracking• 1925-45 – Exp jts 50 – 120 ft, contraction jts
15-60 ft
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Concrete Desing History
• 1940 to 1950 – Use of random jts.• 1987 – 15 states using random jts. • 1975 – 18 states using skewed jts.• 1987 – 25 states using skewed jts.
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First Asphalt Pavement
• Paris – 1854• Used natural rock asphalt,
i.e., limestone rock impregnated withasphalt.
• Pavement provided a quiet, easilycleaned surface, but the skidresistance was very low in wet weather
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First Asphalt Pavementin US
• 1870, Design by Edmund DeSmedt• Sand Mix placed in front of City Hall in
Newark, New Jersey
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First Asphalt Pavement
• First asphalt concrete specificationsappeared in the US in the 1890’s.
• Concurrently, coal tar/aggregatemixtures were being used in Europe.
• First hot-mix asphalt plants weredeveloped in the late 1920’s
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Early Construction
• First modern asphalt paver introducedmid-1950’s
• Prior to 1950’s, asphalt was placed by form-riding finishers similar to PCC
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Flexible Pavements
Asphalt
Unbound Base
Unbound Subbase
Compacted
Natural Subgrade
Asphalt
Unbound Base
Compacted
Natural Subgrade
Asphalt
Compacted
Natural Subgrade
Asphalt
Asphalt Base
Full-DepthDeep StrengthConventional
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AASHO Road Test(late 1950’s)
AASHO, 1961)
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AASHO Road Test Achievements
(AASHO, 1961)
• Serviceability concept• Traffic damage factors• Structural number
concept• Empirical Process • Simplified Pavement
Design
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1950s Vehicle Loads...
(AASHO, 1961)
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History of the Current AASHTO Pavement Design Guide
• Empirical design methodology based on AASHO Road Test in the late 1950’s
• Several versions: 1961 (Interim Guide), 1972 1986 version
• refined material characterization 1993 revised version
• More on rehabilitation• More consistency between flexible, rigid designs• Current version for flexible design procedures
1998 Supplemental Guide for rigid pavement design
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Why is pavement design SO HARD ?
• Predicting the future
• Indecision on design
• Political influence• Funds• Materials• Construction quality
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• Experience• Empirical• Mechanistic-Empirical• Mechanistic
Design Methodologies
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Data Limits
(AASHO Road Test)
CurrentDesigns
>100 Million<2 Million
Axle Load Repetitions
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AASHO Loading Limitations
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The Concept of Mechanistic Design
• Fundamental engineering theories and material properties are used to calculate critical strains in the pavement due to traffic load
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Major Benefits of MEPDG over AASHTO
• More defensible design procedure• More realistic pavement thickness at
high ESAL’s = Cost Savings• Ability to integrate with PRS, LCCA,
warranty projects• Not much different than AASHTO at
lower ESAL ranges (<500,000)
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Key Advantageof M-E Design
“Comprehensive” design procedure:Not Just Thickness! M-E models directly consider true effects and interactions of inputs on structural distress and ride quality.Design optimization possible where all distress types are minimized!
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Challenges of MEPDG Method
• Many inputs required• Availability of models representing local
conditions• Availability of required material
properties• Predicting future traffic loads and
climate• What can not be addressed?
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Why move to a ME based design procedure ?
• Economics• Deficiencies in current procedures• Political climate • Method based on sound engineering
principles
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Everyone is important in the MEPDG analysis process
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AASHTO MEPDG Interim Guide
• Balloted successfully in 2007• AASHTO currently dev
AASHTOWare version
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• Topics to be covered Capabilities Reliability Compare AASHTO Guide to MEPDG Inputs
• Climate Traffic• ACP PCCP• Unbound materials
Calibration Testing
What’s New in MEPDG
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Capabilities
• Wide range of pavement structures New Rehabilitated
• Explicit treatment of major factors Traffic – Over-weight trucks Climate – Site specific and over time Materials – New and different Support – Foundation and existing
pavement
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Capabilities
• Models to predict change in distress over time
• User establishes acceptance criteria Distresses and smoothness
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What’s New in Design Reliability?
• Different than AASHTO 1986/93• Based on predicted distress and IRI • User selects reliability levels and
performance criteria for distress and IRI
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M-E Design ProcessClimate
TrafficMaterials
Structure
DistressResponseTime
Damage
Damage Accumulation
Iterations
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What’s New About the Design Guide?
1993 Guide MEPDG
ClimateSeasonalAdjustments
Drainage Coefficients
Thermal PropertiesWind SpeedAir TemperatureWater Table DepthSun RadiationPrecipitation
Inputs for EICM
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What’s New About the Design Guide?
1993 Guide MEPDG
TrafficESALs
Truck SpeedGear/Axle
ConfigurationAxle/Tire SpacingTire PressureTraffic WanderMonthly, DailyDistribution Factors
Axle Load Spectra
Truck EquivalencyFactors
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What’s New About the Design Guide?
1993 Guide MEPDG
FoundationResilientModulus
Universal non-linearResilient modulusModel “k” values
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What’s New in Flexible Pavement Design?
1993 Guide
HMAMaterials
Layer Coefficient
Resilient Modulus (68°F)
Dynamic Modulus -SPT(Level 1 & Master curves)
Poisson’s ratio
MEPDG
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What’s New in Rigid Pavement Design ?
1993 Guide MEPDG
PCCMaterials
Modulus, FlexStrength, TensileStrength(28-day) Poisson’s ratio
PCC Thermal PropsDrying ShrinkageCoefficient of Thermal Expansion
Modulus of Elasticity(7, 14, 28 & 90 day)
Flexural, TensileStrength
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What’s New and Different
1993 Guide
Outputs Time Series Distress and Smoothness Prediction
MEPDG
Structural NumberRigid Pavement
Thickness
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MEPDG Outputs –Flexible
Fatigue Cracking
Thermal Cracking
Longitudinal Cracking
IRIRut Depth
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Joint FaultingIRI
PunchoutTransverseCracking
MEPDG Outputs - Rigid
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MEPDG is an Analysis Program
Trial design
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What’s New and Different
1993 Guide
Input Levels
Level ThreeLevel TwoLevel One
MEPDG
Single Value
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Design Inputs - Hierarchical Levels
Input levels can be mixed and matched
Damage calculations are exactly the same regardless of design input level
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Climatic Data
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Climatic Inputs
• Identify weather station Pick from one of 800 site Create virtual by averaging surrounding or
similar sites• Create EICM file• Depth to water table
Input Level
1 2 3
√ √ √
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Climate Model (EICM) Asphalt Design
Adjustments:• Unbound Resilient modulus Moisture content
• AC Hourly temperature profile Thermal cracking Rutting
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Hourly Temperature Profile for AC Layers
-40
-30
-20
-10
0
10
20
30
40
50
6/15/94 6/15/95 6/14/96 6/14/97 6/14/98 6/14/99
TIME
Depth = 0 in. Depth = 3 in. Depth = 6 in.
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Environment Concrete Design
• EICM used to predict Hourly temperature profile Monthly moisture gradient
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Concrete Slab Temperature and Moisture Gradients
Slab wetter on top
Slab dryer on top
Curling Warping
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TRAFFIC INPUTS
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Traffic Hierarchical Input Levels
• Level 3 – AADT & % trucks with TTC Classification Group
• Level 2 – AADTT with Regional/Statewide AVC & WIM data
• Levels 1 – AADTT with site specific AVC & WIM data
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Input ParametersInput Level1 2 3
Inputs Required to Compute AADTTAADTT for Base Year √ √AADT and Percent Trucks for Base Year √Directional Distribution Factor √ √ √Lane Distribution Factor √ √ √
Truck Traffic Volume Adjustment FactorsTruck Distribution Factors - Base Year √ √Truck Traffic Classification (TTC) Factor √Axle Load Distribution Factors √ √Monthly Distribution Factors √ √ √
Traffic Module Inputs - Overview
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Input ParametersInput Level1 2 3
Hourly Distribution Factors √ √ √Truck Traffic Growth Function/Factor √ √ √
Axle Load Distribution FactorsAxle Load Distribution Factors √ √
General Traffic InformationNo. of Axle Types per Truck Class √ √Axle Spacing √ √Axle Load Groups √ √ √Tire Spacing/Axle Configuration √ √ √Tire Pressure √ √ √
Traffic Module Inputs - Overview
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Lateral Truck Traffic Wander
Mean wheel location
Traffic wander standard deviation
Design lane width
Input Level
1 2 3√ √ √
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Unbound Materials(Aggregates and Subgrade)
• Resilient Modulus Level 3 Defaults Level 2 Correlations Level 1 Materials specific testing
• Variability None Seasonal Values EICM
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Unbound Material General Properties
• Unbound Material Type - select from list of: AASHTO Classification (AASHTO M 145) Unified Soil Classification System
(ASTM D 2487) Other (e.g. crushed stone, cold recycled AC)
• Layer Thickness: thickness of the layer in inches
Input Level
1 2 3√ √ √
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For PCCP
Subgrade resilient modulus is converted to a k-value that produces equivalent surface deflections for each month in year
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ASPHALT MATERIAL
PROPERTY AND DESIGN INPUTS
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Mix Dynamic Modulus
• Level 3 – Predictive equation and binder class 2 – Predictive equation and binder tests 1 – Laboratory mix tests
• Predictive equation Gradation Air Voids Asphalt content Binder information
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PCC MATERIAL PROPERTY AND DESIGN INPUTS
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CRCP Design Features - Inputs
• Reinforcement Bar diameter Spacing Percent steel
• Base properties Base type Erodibility Base/slab friction coefficient
• Crack spacing (optional)
Input Level
1 2 3√ √ √
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JPCP Design Features - Inputs
• Joint Details Joint spacing Sealant type Dowel diameter and spacing
• Edge Support Shoulder type and LTE Widened slab
• Base properties Base type Interface type, i.e. bonded or unbonded Erodibility
Input Level
1 2 3√ √ √
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Three Step Process
• Verification – assuring general reasonableness
• Calibration – minimize difference between predicted and observed distress
• Validation – confirm accuracy of calibrated model
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Performance Verification
• Procedure evaluates the trial design to determine if it meets the desired performance criteria at individually set reliability levels
Trial design
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MEPDG Guide Calibration
• Done with national LTPP data
• Default values also from LTPP
• Confirm/change national defaults
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Implementation –Calibration
• Requires extensive experimental studies, including:
Field testing programs Laboratory testing Data analysis
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Field Testing Programs
• Select test sites in each agency (LTPP and others) that includes range of: Climate types and areas in the agency Pavement types
• AC (all types), PCC (all types)• Types of overlays and rehab.• Base and subgrade types• Joint types in PCC
Traffic characteristics Typical preservation techniques
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Field Testing Programs, Cont.
• Obtain pavement performance data
Distress surveys FWD and core testing Pavement profile Material related distresses
• Determine in-place material properties
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Data Analysis
Local calibration will involve recalibrating the distress models using data collected from the selected local sections
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Regional/Local Calibration Process
βs = Agency Calibration Factor
Calibrated National Predicted Performance
Actu
al F
ield
Per
form
ance
βs
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MEPDG Survey Conducted in 2007
• 52 responses, 50 states plus DC & PR• 65 questions on: Current Design Procedures MEPDG Knowledge Implementation Activities Partnering Activities Training Needs
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Asphalt Design Procedure
12%
63% 13%
8%
4%
AASHTO 1972
AASHTO 1993
State DesignProcedureAASHTO/StateDesign ProcedureOther
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Concrete Design Procedure
4%
2%36%
19%12%
10%
17%
AASHTO 1972
AASHTO 1981
AASHTO 1993
AASHTO 1998
State DesignProcedureAASHTO/StateDesign ProcedureOther
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How does actual performance compare to design life?
10%
45%
12%
33%
Less than design life
Similar to design life
More than designlifeDon't Know
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Does SHA Use or Plan to Use MEPDG?
Hawaii
Alaska
N0 -12
YES - 40
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Evolution
The MEPDG is not perfect…..BUT;
The MEPDG provides a reasonable and structured platform for continuous improvement.
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Things to remember
• All pavement design systems need: Quality Materials Characterization Ties climate with design Quality Traffic Data Calibrated to local conditions
• The MEPDG is one tool for a designer Focused on the structural design aspects Has limitations