Advances in Pavement Design through Full-scale Accelerated Pavement Testing

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Internationally, full-scale accelerated pavement testing, either on test roads or linear/circular test tracks, has proven to be a valuable tool that fills the gap between models and laboratory tests and long-term experiments on in-service pavements. Accelerated pavement testing is used to improve understanding of pavement behavior, and evaluation of innovative materials and additives, alternative materials processing, new construction techniques, and new types of structures. It provides quick comparisons between current and new practice and the ability to rapidly validate and calibrate models with quality data, with minimal risk at relatively low cost.

Advances in Pavement Design through Full-scale Accelerated Pavement Testing

is a collection of papers from the 4th International Conference on Accelerated Pavement Testing (Davies, CA, USA, 19-21 September 2012), and includes contributions on a variety of topics including:
- Overview of Accelerated Pavement Testing
- Establishment of New Accelerated Pavement Testing Facilities
- Review of the Impact of Accelerated Pavement Testing Programs on Practice
- Instrumentation for Accelerated Pavement Testing
- Accelerated Pavement Testing on Asphalt Concrete Pavements
- Accelerated Pavement Testing on Portland Cement Concrete Pavements
- Accelerated Pavement Testing to Evaluate Functional Performance
- Relating Laboratory Tests to Performance using Accelerated Pavement Testing
- Development and Calibration of Empirical and Mechanistic-empirical Pavement Design Procedures and Models
- Benefit-cost Analysis of Accelerated Pavement Testing

Advances in Pavement Design through Full-scale Accelerated Pavement Testing

will be useful to academics and professionals involved in pavement engineering.

Part 1: Overview of accelerated pavement testingcA history of modern accelerated performance testing of pavement structures; A decade of full-scale accelerated pavement testing; Part 2: Establishment of new accelerated pavement testing facilities PaveLab and Heavy Vehicle Simulator implementation at the National Laboratory of Materials and Testing Models of the University of Costa Rica;cThe Universidad de los Andes linear test track apparatus;cDesign and implementation of a full-scale accelerated pavement testing facility for extreme regional climates in China;cPart 3: Review of the impact of accelerated pavement testing programs on practice Significant findings from the first three research cycles at the NCAT pavement test track; A ten year review of the Florida's accelerated pavement testing program; Fourteen years of accelerated pavement testing at Kansas State University; The implementation of accelerated pavement testing findings into industry practice in New Zealand; History of construction contracting methods used at MnROAD; International case studies in support of successful applications of accelerated pavement testing in pavement engineering; Part 4: Instrumentation for accelerated pavement testing Semi-automated crack analysis system for the Heavy Vehicle Simulator; The CAPTIF unbound pavement strain measurement system; Detection of debonding and vertical cracks with non destructive techniques during accelerated pavement testing; Rut depth measurement method and analysis at the FAA's National Airport Pavement Test Facility; Direct measurement of residual stress in airport concrete pavements; A modular data acquisition system for Heavy Vehicle Simulator tests; Simulating the effects of instrumentation on measured pavement response; Part 5: Accelerated pavement testing on asphalt concrete pavements Accelerated loading, laboratory, and field testing studies to fast-track the implementation of warm mix asphalt in California; Assessment of response and performance of perpetual pavements with warm mix asphalt surfaces at the Ohio Accelerated Pavement Load Facility;Structural evaluation and short-term performance of sustainable pavement sections at the NCAT pavement test track; Evaluation of a rubber modified asphalt mixture at the 2009 NCAT test track; Accelerated performance of a failed pavement on a soft clay subgrade after rehabilitation with high polymer mix at the NCAT pavement test track; Evaluation of a heavy polymer modified asphalt binder using accelerated pavement testing; Accelerated pavement testing of low-volume paved roads with geocell reinforcement; Accelerated pavement testing of two flexible road pavements to assess long-term structural performance; Evaluation of a flexible pavement structure in an accelerated pavement test; How low is too low? Assessing the risk of low air voids using accelerated pavement testing; Exploratory evaluation of cracking performance of a 4.75mm NMAS overlay using full-scale accelerated loading; Rutting resistance of asphalt pavements with fine sand subgrade under full-scale trafficking at high and ambient air temperature; Initial tests results from the MLS10 Mobile Load Simulator in Switzerland; Part 6: Accelerated pavement testing on portland cement concrete pavements Performance of thin jointed concrete pavements subjected to accelerated traffic loading at the MnROAD facility; Accelerated pavement testing experiment of a pavement made of fiber-reinforced roller-compacted concrete; Provisional results from accelerated pavement testing of roller-compacted concrete in South Africa; Accelerated pavement testing on slab and block pavements using the MLS10 Mobile Load Simulator; Environmental and load effect on dowelled and undowelled portland cement concrete slabs; Study of failure mechanisms in rubblized concrete pavements with hot mix asphalt overlays; Part 7: Accelerated pavement testing to evaluate functional performance Accelerated traffic load testing of seismic expansion joints for the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge; Accelerated testing of noise performance of pavements; Performance evaluation of unsurfaced pavements using the UIUC Accelerated Transportation Loading Assembly; Use of accelerated pavement testing to validate Ride Quality Index Data; Part 8: Relating laboratory tests to performance using accelerated pavement testing, Towards improved characterization of cemented pavement materials; Validating permanent deformation tests using accelerated pavement testing; The implementation of findings from accelerated pavement testing in pavement design and construction practice; Recommended asphalt binder fatigue performance specification from full-scale accelerated pavement tests considering aging effects; Part 9: Development and calibration of empirical and mechanistic-empirical pavement design procedures and models. Calibrating full-scale accelerated pavement testing data using long-term pavement performance data; Using point level accelerated pavement testing data for calibration of performance models; Use of mechanistic-empirical performance simulations to adjust and compare results from accelerated pavement testing; Calibration of incremental-recursive rutting prediction models in CalME using Heavy Vehicle Simulator experiments; Lessons learnt from the application of the CalME asphalt fatigue model to experimental data from the CEDEX test track; Modeling of flexible pavement structure behavior - comparisons with Heavy Vehicle Simulator measurements; Evaluation of the aggressiveness of different multi-axle loads using accelerated pavement tests; Accelerated pavement testing-based pavement design catalogue. Part 10: Benefit-cost analysis of accelerated pavement testing Developments in evaluating the benefits of implemented accelerated pavement testing results in California; Results of a case study determining economic benefits of accelerated pavement testing research in California

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David Jones (Queen's University Belfast); John Harvey (University of California, Davis, USA Tiger Health Limited; Imad L Al-Qadi (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Angel Mateos