DESIGN AND ASSESSMENT OF SOIL-SURFACED AND AGGREGATE-SURFACED ROADWAYS FOR THE U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS
Similar to all government agencies that have responsibilities in transportation infrastructure, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) continually seeks to improve its ability in designing and assessing pavements. Although the USACE has historically invested most of its research funding toward airfields, recent emphasis has been directed toward roadways. Recent topics of interest include: (1) the use of geosynehetics; (2) the use of marginal materials; (3) the inclusion of reliability concepts; and (4) the development of both equipment and software tools to help with predicting the performance or upgrade requirements of existing structures. This paper describes the evolution of the USACE design procedures for soil-surfaced and aggregate-surfaced roadways. Also, recent developments toward new mechanistic-empirical stress-based criteria are described and demonstrated with example data obtained from pavement test sections.
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Authors:
- Freeman, A B
- Mann, T A
- Gonzales, C R
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Conference:
- Proceedings of the 21st ARRB and 11th REAAA Conference. Transport. Our Highway to a Sustainable Future
- Location: Cairns, Australia
- Date: 2003-5-18 to 2003-5-23
- Publication Date: 2003
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 16 p.
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Serial:
- Publication of: ARRB Transport Research, Limited
- Publisher: ARRB
- ISSN: 0158-0728
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Aggregate mixtures; Airport runways; Empirical methods; Geosynthetics; Infrastructure; Pavements; Roads; Soils
- Subject Areas: Design; Geotechnology; Highways; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00964331
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 087659229X
- Files: TRIS, ATRI
- Created Date: Oct 9 2003 12:00AM