EXPERT SYSTEM FOR CONCRETE PAVEMENT EVALUATION AND REHABILITATION

A prototype knowledge-based system has been developed to assist state highway engineers in project-level evaluation and rehabilitation planning and design for high-type (Interstate) concrete pavements. It uses information provided by the engineer to identify types of deterioration present and determine their causes, to select rehabilitation techniques that will effectively correct the existing deterioration and prevent its recurrence, to combine individual rehabilitation techniques into feasible rehabilitation strategies, and to predict the performance of alternative rehabilitation strategies. Pavement types addressed by the system are jointed reinforced concrete, jointed plain concrete, and continuously reinforced concrete. Predictive models are incorporated into the system to show future pavement performance with and without rehabilitation. These models were developed from national data bases of concrete pavement projects and may be of limited applicability to a specific state's climatic conditions and materials. Interactive computer programs for each of the three pavement types will operate on any IBM-compatible personal computer.

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  • This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1207, Pavement Design. 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:
  • Hall, Kathleen T
  • Connor, James M
  • Darter, Michael I
  • Carpenter, Samuel H
• Publication Date: 1988

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 21-29
• Monograph Title: Pavement design
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1207
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Computer programs; Concrete pavements; Continuously reinforced concrete pavements; Deterioration; Driver rehabilitation; Evaluation; Expert systems; Forecasting; Maintenance management; Maintenance practices; Mathematical models; Pavement performance; Pavements; Personal computers; Planning; Prototypes; Reinforced concrete pavements; User interfaces
• Uncontrolled Terms: Causes; Interactive computing; Models; Rehabilitation
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Design; Highways; Pavements; Planning and Forecasting; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00490197
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 03090477730
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Dec 31 1989 12:00AM