HORIZONTAL INFILTRATION OF MOISTURE IN ROAD PAVEMENTS

Many paved rural roads have an unpaved road shoulder and water often ponds at the paved pavement edge. This water can infiltrate horizontally unfavourably under the paved road hence weakening the structure. Similar moisture movement may occur for an unlined drainage ditch adjacent to the shoulder. A general solution has been developed to determine this horizontal water movement in partially saturated pavement materials. This has been achieved by combining the results of simple laboratory tests for horizontal water movements with the theoretical approach of Zayani et at (1991) called the Inverse Method. For the covering abstract see ITRD E108441.

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  Asociacion Tecnica de Carreteras

  Monte Equinza 24
  Madrid,   Spain 
• Authors:
  • FARH, Y
  • FREER-HEWISH, R J
  • CARSON, A M
• Conference:
  • INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SUBDRAINAGE IN ROADWAY PAVEMENTS AND SUBGRADES, HELD GRANADA, SPAIN, 11-13 NOVEMBER 1998
• Publication Date: 1998

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 195-202

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Drainage; Flow; Fluid dynamics; Motion; Pavements; Rural areas; Water
• ITRD Terms: 2937: Drainage; 5430: Flow (fluid); 5483: Movement; 2955: Pavement; 328: Rural area; 4355: Water
• Subject Areas: Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Pavements;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00807314
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 84-87825-05-02
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Apr 4 2001 12:00AM