GEORGIA SATELLITE FLEXIBLE PAVEMENT EVALUATION AND ITS APPLICATION TO DESIGN

IN A STUDY OF THE DETERIORATION OF FAILURE OF FLEXIBLE PAVEMENTS IN GEORGIA, U.S.A, SERVICEABILITY WAS ESTIMATED VISUALLY AND FROM MEASURED DEPTH OF RUTS. TOTAL TRAFFIC WAS RELEVANT TRAFFIC COUNTS AND UNDISTURBED SUBGRADE SAMPLES WERE TESTED. THE SERVICEABILITY RATING WAS FOUND TO BE A FUNCTION OF THE SAFETY FACTOR OF THE SUBGRADE AGAINST SHEAR FAILURE AND THE AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC AND A SIMILAR RELATION HAS BEEN FOUND FROM THE AASHO ROAD TEST. IT IS POSSIBLE TO USE THE AASHO INTERIM DESIGN FOR FLEXIBLE PAVEMENTS IN GEORGIA, OR A DIRECT DESIGN METHOD CAN BE DERIVED FROM THE RELATIONS BETWEEN TRAFFIC, SOIL BEARING CAPACITY AND SERVICEABILITY. /RRL/

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  • http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/hrr/1965/71/71-008.pdf
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• Authors:
  • Sowers, George F
• Publication Date: 1965

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 151-171
• Monograph Title: Flexible pavement design; 1963 and 1964
• Serial:
  • Highway Research Record
  • Issue Number: 71
  • Publisher: Highway Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bearing capacity; Durability; Evaluation; Failure; Field tests; Flexibility; Flexible pavements; Pavement design; Pavement performance; Pavements; Safety factors; Samples; Service life; Soils; Subgrade (Pavements); Traffic; Traffic counting
• Identifier Terms: AASHO Road Test
• Uncontrolled Terms: Depressions (Indentations); Field measurements; Flexible
• Geographic Terms: Georgia; United States
• Old TRIS Terms: Pasho road test; Shear failures; Soil bearing capacity
• Subject Areas: Design; Geotechnology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pavements; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00206554
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Dec 12 1994 12:00AM