DEVELOPMENT OF A DISTRESS INDEX AND REHABILITATION CRITERIA FOR CONTINUOUSLY REINFORCED CONCRETE PAVEMENTS USING DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS

Discriminant analysis is applied to developing the distress index and rehabilitation criteria of the network-level pavement management system for continuously reinforced concrete pavements in Texas. The results are intended to provide the Texas State Department of Highways and Public Transportation with guidelines for evaluating the present pavement conditions and for scheduling rehabilitation. For the discriminant analysis, historical condition survey data were evaluated and separated into two groups, overlaid and nonoverlaid pavements, for which detailed descriptions were given. Each set of data comprised several distress manifestations. A discriminant equation was derived from the analysis that linearly combined the distress manifestations and forced the calculated scores Z" of the two pavement groups to be as statistically different as possible. The relative magnitudes of Z" could then be used as a distress index. Several modifications were made in the derivation of the discriminant equation in order to minimize the overlapping area of the distribution of the Z" scores of the two groups. For the final equation developed, the Z" scores ranged from -1.8 to 1.0, with zero as the criterion for rehabilitation. Thus, a pavement would be classified as a candidate to be overlaid if its distress index was less than zero. With these results, there was a 92.6 percent confidence that any pavement section would be assigned to the group it actually belonged to. Although some unrealistic assumptions were made in this study, the prediction results obtained were encouraging. It is believed that this approach is a further step in the evaluation of pavement distress condition.

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• Authors:
  • Chou, Chia-Pei
  • McCullough, B Frank
• Publication Date: 1987

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• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 76-82
• Monograph Title: PAVEMENT EVALUATION AND REHABILITATION
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  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1117
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Continuously reinforced concrete pavements; Defects; Discriminant analysis; Driver rehabilitation; Evaluation; Guidelines; Maintenance management; Maintenance practices; Pavement distress; Pavement management systems; Pavement performance; Pavements; Planning
• Uncontrolled Terms: Pavement conditions; Rehabilitation
• Old TRIS Terms: Discriminate analysis
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; Planning and Forecasting; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces; I61: Equipment and Maintenance Methods;

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• Accession Number: 00468578
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0-309-04470-7
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: May 31 1988 12:00AM