by QES | Mar 21, 2017 | Pavement Distress and Life-Cycle, Research
This study examines tens of thousands of bridge decks in order to identify their standard deterioration rate. This in turn helps create standardized bridge lifetime expectations and allows researchers to identify more effective maintenance treatments for bridge decks....
by QES | Sep 25, 2014 | Pavement Distress and Life-Cycle, Research
Slippage is a common pavement distress resulting from pavement layers separating due to the pressures vehicles put on pavement. No national standard addresses this issue, so this study examines its causes and effects more closely and presents solutions for it....
by nacb-adm | Sep 21, 2014 | Pavement Distress and Life-Cycle, Research
Load Transfer Efficiency (LTE), or how effectively concrete pavement performs near the edges of each slab, is one of the most important factors in how long that pavement will last. This study presents an empirical model to explain how to optimize the concrete mixture...
by nacb-adm | Sep 21, 2013 | Pavement Distress and Life-Cycle, Research
Author(s): Dennis Morian, P.E.; Doug Frith, P.E.; Guangming Wang, Ph.D, P.E. Date published: 2013 Published by: Transportation Research Board Abstract: Top-down cracking (TDC) has been well recognized as a major distress for the heavy duty asphalt pavements yet the...