Reliability Sensitivity of Pavement ME Design

Over the past two years, the Canadian User Group for Pavement ME Design™ has run design trials to become more familiar with the software program and to evaluate the sensitivity of the predicted pavement distresses to different input parameters. A project developed by Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation was used as the pavement design for all these trials. Results from the previously completed design trials have been reported elsewhere. More recently, the User Group has completed trial runs by varying the design reliability to evaluate the sensitivity of the predicted distresses to the variation in the design reliability. The input reliability was varied from 60 percent to 90 percent, in increments of 10 percent, holding all other inputs constant. This created four alternative scenarios for each climate station. Trial runs were completed for several climate stations across Canada. This paper presents the results of these reliability sensitivity trials and highlights the key findings.

• Record URL:
  http://conf.tac-atc.ca/english/annualconference/tac2014/s-13/edmunds.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)

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• Authors:
  • Edmunds, K
  • JUHASZ, M
  • AHAMMED, MA
• Conference:
  • Transportation 2014: Past, Present, Future - 2014 Conference and Exhibition of the Transportation Association of Canada // Transport 2014 : Du passé vers l'avenir - 2014 Congrès et Exposition de 'Association des transports du Canada
• Publication Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 1 PDF file, 383 KB, 16p.
• Monograph Title: Transportation 2014: Past, Present, Future - 2014 Conference and Exhibition of the Transportation Association of Canada // Transport 2014 : Du passé vers l'avenir - 2014 Congrès et Exposition de 'Association des transports du Canada

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Calibration; Conferences; Mix design; Pavement design; Sensitivity; Software; Test tracks
• Geographic Terms: Canada
• ITRD Terms: 6171: Calibration; 8018: Canada; 8525: Conference; 4714: Mix design; 3055: Pavement design; 5928: Sensitivity; 8645: Software; 2789: Test track
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01553354
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)
• Files: ITRD, TAC
• Created Date: Feb 13 2015 4:27PM