CHARACTERIZING FATIGUE LIFE FOR ASPHALT CONCRETE PAVEMENTS

The evaluation of fatigue life for asphalt concrete pavements is very difficult because of limited knowledge as to fatigue damage relations for real pavements, reliable testing data for only a limited number of mixtures, and limited information as to how the fatigue life potential of an asphalt concrete pavement varies with temperature and mixture characteristics. This paper seeks to overcome some of these difficulties by (a) proposing a typical fatigue relation for a typical asphalt concrete mixture in place, (b) presenting procedures for modifying fatigue relations with changes in temperature and mixture stiffness, (c) proposing a procedure for taking specific mixture characteristics into account, and (d) offering a simplistic method of transforming fatigue life predictions into predictions of area cracked. (Author)

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• Authors:
  • Rauhut, J Brent
  • Kennedy, Thomas W
• Publication Date: 1982

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 47-56
• Monograph Title: Structural performance of pavement systems
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 888
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Asphalt concrete; Asphalt mixtures; Asphalt pavements; Correlation analysis; Fatigue (Mechanics); Pavement cracking; Stiffness; Temperature
• Uncontrolled Terms: Fatigue life
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Design; Highways; Materials; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00372930
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309035007
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: May 31 1983 12:00AM