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ASPHALT PAVEMENT TEMPERATURES RELATED TO KUWAIT CLIMATE

THIS PAPER REPORTS ON THE ASPHALT PAVEMENT TEMPERATURES MEASURED IN KUWAIT, WHICH VARY FROM ABOUT 5 C TO MORE THAN 75 C. THE PAVEMENT TEMPERATURES RECORDED WERE SUMMARIZED AND RELATED TO IMPORTANT CLIMATE PARAMETERS INCLUDING CHANGES IN AIR TEMPERATURE AND IN THE SOLAR RADIATION RECEIVED BY THE PAVEMENT. DATA ANALYSIS SHOWS THAT PAVEMENT TEMPERATURES AND DURATION OF THESE TEMPERATURES IN KUWAIT ARE RELATIVELY HIGH COMPARED TO THOSE IN OTHER HOT AREAS. THIS LED THE AUTHOR TO CONSIDER THE POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF HIGH TEMPERATURES ON THE EFFECTIVE STIFFNESS MODULUS OF ASPHALTIC LAYERS AND ON THE LOAD-CARRYING CAPACITY OF THE PAVEMENT. BY APPLYING THE THREE-LAYER ELASTIC SYSTEM. IT CAN BE SHOWN THAT THE THICKNESS OF THE ASPHALTIC LAYER, FOR TEMPERATURES PREVAILING IN KUWAIT, IS CONTROLLED BY THE VALUE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE PERMISSIBLE VERTICAL COMPRESSIVE STRAIN ON THE UNDERSIDE OF THE ASPHALT LAYER. /AUTHOR/

Record URL:
- http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/hrr/1972/404/404-007.pdf
Supplemental Notes:
- Sponsored by Committee on Mechanical Properties of Bituminous Pavement Mixtures. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
Authors:
- Bissada, Amir F
Conference:
- 51st Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board
- Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
- Date: 1972-1-17 to 1972-1-21
Publication Date: 1972

Media Info

Media Type: Print
Features: Figures; References; Tables;
Pagination: pp 71-85
Monograph Title: Asphalt mixture characterization and asphalt grading
Serial:
- Highway Research Record
- Issue Number: 404
- Publisher: Highway Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

TRT Terms: Asphalt pavements; Climate; Compressive strength; Elasticity (Mechanics); Pavement layers; Pavement performance; Pavements; Stiffness; Strain (Mechanics); Stresses; Temperature; Thickness; Time
Uncontrolled Terms: Pavement thickness; Vertical stress
Geographic Terms: Kuwait
Old TRIS Terms: Strains
Subject Areas: Highways; Materials; Pavements;

Filing Info

Accession Number: 00211774
Record Type: Publication
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Apr 2 1973 12:00AM