Validating Spring Weight Restriction Limits with Mechanistic–Empirical Failure Prediction Models: Low-Volume Roads in Manitoba, Canada

This study developed local mechanistic–empirical failure models to predict fatigue and rutting damage on spring-weight-restricted (SWR) roads in Manitoba, Canada. The local models were used to assess the SWR load limits and to validate the current SWR deflection levels that regulate commercial vehicle weights during the spring period. The local model predictions were compared with the damage models of the Asphalt Institute (AI) and the Mechanistic–Empirical Design Guide (MEPDG). The results indicated that the predicted equivalent single-axle load repetitions to fatigue failure from the local model were higher than those of the MEPDG and the AI models by an average of 37% and 20%, respectively. On the basis of the local model equivalent single-axle load predictions, the current SWR deflection limits used in Manitoba appear to be a reasonable method for regulating B-Train operations during the spring period.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.3141/2349-13
• Summary URL:
  http://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Validating+Spring+Weight+Restriction+Limits+with+Mechanistic%e2%ac%1cEmpirical+Failure+Prediction+Models%3a+Low-Volume+Roads+in+Manitoba%2c+Canada&author=L.+Kavanagh&author=A.+Shalaby&publication_year=2013
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• Authors:
  • Kavanagh, Leonnie N
  • Shalaby, Ahmed
• Publication Date: 2013

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 108-117
• Monograph Title: Geology and Properties of Earth Materials 2013
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Issue Number: 2349
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Failure; Failure analysis; Low volume roads; Mathematical prediction; Rutting; Size and weight regulations; Spring; Traffic volume; Validation
• Candidate Terms: Mechanistic-empirical design
• Identifier Terms: Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide
• Geographic Terms: Manitoba
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Materials; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I62: Winter Maintenance;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01473643
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309263443
• Report/Paper Numbers: 13-5140
• Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 25 2013 8:52AM