Brazilian road deterioration test: final report

The overloading practice increases as the control of heavy vehicle decreases. The purpose of this study is to do a continuous road assessment concerning strains, stress, moisture and temperature of pavement as well as recording dynamic load effort. This work is a result of a study developed in an experimental track located near Araranguá city, south of Brazil. The first activity considers the pavement instrumentation, with sensors installed in each pavement layer and weigh-in-motion sensors installed on the pavement surface. The second activity consists in doing the fatigue test and the complex modulus determination. The pavement mechanical behaviour is evaluated in the laboratory, which provides information to the pavement deterioration model. Then, with traffic load spectra analysis for the pavement life will then be calculated. The load spectra values are transformed into pavement deformation response to be compared to the pavement fatigue curve values. Pavement deterioration model is then loaded with different loads characteristics to simulated different conditions of deterioration.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Institut Francais des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l'Aménagement et des Réseaux (IFSTTAR)

  14-20 bd Newton, Cité Descartes, Champs su Marne
  77447 Marne la Vallée,   France  Cedex 2
• Authors:
  • Garcia Otto, G
  • Momm, L
  • Mattar Valente, A
• Conference:
  • Transport Research Arena (TRA) 5th Conference: Transport Solutions from Research to Deployment
  • Location: Paris , France
  • Date: 2014-4-14 to 2014-4-17
• Publication Date: 2014-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 10p
• Monograph Title: Transport Research Arena (TRA) 2014 Proceedings

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Deterioration; Heavy vehicles; Pavements; Rolling contact; Sensors; Test tracks; Tests for suitability, service and quality
• Uncontrolled Terms: Pavement technology; Road design and asset management
• Geographic Terms: Brazil
• ATRI Terms: Deterioration; Heavy vehicle; Pavement testing; Sensor; Test track; Vehicle pavement interaction
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pavements;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01534667
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: VTI, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 14 2014 10:17AM