Evaluation of pavement cracking performance in the state of Rhode Island using falling weight deflectometer data

TY - GEN

T1 - Evaluation of pavement cracking performance in the state of Rhode Island using falling weight deflectometer data

AU - Jha, Vivek

AU - Mehta, Yusuf

AU - Byrne, Michael

AU - Manning, Francis

AU - Saridaki, Edward J.

PY - 2009

Y1 - 2009

N2 - The rehabilitation process usually undertaken by the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) for preservation of cracked pavement involves milling and replacing 2.5-5 cm of the surface layer. The problem associated with the above process was that the pavement in Rhode Island still failed prematurely and thus caused RIDOT lose millions of dollars. The purpose of this study was to determine ways that the cracking can be controlled in the surface layer and provide the solution for this problem in the form of catalog from which various stiffness and thickness can be selected for the surface layer based on different field condition. The criteria that differentiated an uncracked section from cracked sections were found to be a limiting value of tensile critical strain beneath the surface layer. In most of the overlay sections it was observed that the thickness provided by the RIDOT was too thin and thus cracking was observed at those stations.

AB - The rehabilitation process usually undertaken by the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) for preservation of cracked pavement involves milling and replacing 2.5-5 cm of the surface layer. The problem associated with the above process was that the pavement in Rhode Island still failed prematurely and thus caused RIDOT lose millions of dollars. The purpose of this study was to determine ways that the cracking can be controlled in the surface layer and provide the solution for this problem in the form of catalog from which various stiffness and thickness can be selected for the surface layer based on different field condition. The criteria that differentiated an uncracked section from cracked sections were found to be a limiting value of tensile critical strain beneath the surface layer. In most of the overlay sections it was observed that the thickness provided by the RIDOT was too thin and thus cracking was observed at those stations.

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U2 - 10.1109/SAS.2009.4801784

DO - 10.1109/SAS.2009.4801784

M3 - Conference contribution

SN - 9781424427871

T3 - SAS 2009 - IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium Proceedings

SP - 90

EP - 94

BT - SAS 2009 - IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium Proceedings

T2 - IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium, SAS 2009

Y2 - 17 February 2009 through 19 February 2009

ER -