Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide: A Manual of Practice

This document describes a pavement design methodology that is based on engineering mechanics and has been validated with extensive road test performance data. This methodology is called mechanistic-empirical (M-E) pavement design, and it represents a major change from the pavement design methods in practice today. The overall objective of this guide is to provide the highway community with a state-of-the-practice tool for the design and analysis of new and rehabilitated pavement structures. Use of the M-E principles means that the design and analysis procedure calculates pavement responses (stresses, strains, and deflections) and uses those responses to compute incremental damage over time. The procedure empirically relates the cumulative damage to observed pavement distresses.

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• Corporate Authors:

  American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

  444 North Capitol Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Publication Date: 2008-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Edition: Interim Edition
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 216p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Deflection; Mechanical strain; Mechanistic-empirical pavement design; Pavement design; Pavement distress; Pavement performance; Stresses
• Identifier Terms: Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01123422
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9871560514237
• Report/Paper Numbers: Publication Code: MEPDG-1
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 13 2009 9:40AM