IMPROVED PREDICTION MODELS FOR PCC PAVEMENT PERFORMANCE - RELATED SPECIFICATIONS

Performance-related specifications (PRS) for the acceptance of newly constructed jointed plain concrete pavements (JPCP) have been developed over the past decade. The main objectives of this study were to improve the distress and smoothness prediction models used in the current PRS approach for JPCP, and to provide guidelines for calibrating these models for local conditions. Both the improved prediction models and the calibration procedure were implemented in the PaveSpec 3.0 PRS software. The project team enhanced existing models for predicting: transverse joint faulting; transverse fatigue cracking; transverse joint spalling; International Roughness Index (IRI); and initial IRI as a function of initial Profile Index (PI). This TechBrief describes the improved performance models and provides an example application of the improved models. Comments are also included on the calibration of the prediction models and on the PaveSpec PRS software.

• Record URL:
  https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/infrastructure/pavements/pccp/00154/00154.pdf
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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/14702
• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Highway Administration

  Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, 6300 Georgetown Pike
  McLean, VA  United States  22101
• Publication Date: 2000-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 4 p.
• Serial:
  • TechBrief
  • Publisher: Federal Highway Administration
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Acceptance; Calibration; Concrete pavements; Construction; Cracking; Fatigue (Mechanics); Faulting; Guidelines; Mathematical models; Mathematical prediction; Pavement performance; Performance based specifications; Software; Spalling; Transverse joints
• Identifier Terms: International Roughness Index
• Uncontrolled Terms: Local conditions; Profile index
• Subject Areas: Construction; Data and Information Technology; Design; Highways; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways; I23: Properties of Road Surfaces;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00798937
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-RD-00-154
• Files: NTL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Sep 15 2000 12:00AM