Abstract

Various Departments of Transportation in the South-Central States and elsewhere have made extensive use of the Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) surface deflection bowl data. The falling weight deflectometer (FWD) test is a popular NDT-based test used by transportation authorities to evaluate the performance of flexible pavement. Nevertheless, it is rare to develop a method for evaluating pavement sections using FWD data from all sensors. There is a constant demand for DOTs and highway agencies to have a streamlined approach that can be applied directly to their databases. This research focuses on extending and verifying the concept of previously published area ratio parameters to the pavement section of South-Central States (Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas) in order to properly analyze pavement performance. Simulation-based deflections are employed to strengthen deflection-based parameters and minimize the need for lengthy FWD field testing. Ninety-seven pavement sections in these states are being investigated for the implementation and validation of simplified processes that will be widely accessible to different transportation authorities in order to assess pavement problems at the network level.

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© 2022 Bastola, Souliman, Dessouky and Daoud. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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Frontiers Media S.A.

Date of publication

Fall 11-24-2022

Language

english

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http://hdl.handle.net/10950/4483

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Article

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