Stress Prediction for Cracking of Jointed Plain Concrete Pavements, 1925-2000: An Overview

The evolution of analytical methods for the prediction of cracking in jointed plain concrete pavements was traced over the period from the publication of Westergaard’s early work until the year 2000. This development was accomplished in parallel with the birth and coming of age of geotechnical engineering and was likewise pioneered by a number of colorful and distinguished personalities. Westergaard’s limiting assumptions have defined the task for generations of pavement engineers who, with road tests and laboratory studies, jerry-rigged equipment, and sophisticated electronic tools, have eventually managed to eliminate each one of them. As a new era of mechanistic–empirical pavement design is ushered in, it behooves the profession to undertake a concerted and serious effort to eliminate the most crucial remaining stumbling block to their efforts: Miner’s fatigue hypothesis. Fracture mechanics, similitude concepts, and the principles of dimensional analysis hold the brightest promise of a future worthy of the pioneers celebrated here.

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  • https://doi.org/10.3141/1919-06
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• Authors:
  • Ioannides, Anastasios M
• Publication Date: 2005

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 47-53
• Monograph Title: Rigid and Flexible Pavement Design 2005
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Issue Number: 1919
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Concrete pavements; Dimensional analysis; Fatigue (Mechanics); Fracture mechanics; Geotechnical engineering; History; Mathematical prediction; Mechanistic design; Pavement cracking; Stresses
• Uncontrolled Terms: Similitude
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Design; Geotechnology; Highways; History; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01015510
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309093929
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Jan 13 2006 9:06AM