Allowable Axle Loads on Pavements

Bly, Peter
Tompkins, Derek
Khazanovich, Lev
2010-12
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Allowable Axle Loads on Pavements

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2010-12

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Minnesota Department of Transportation Research Services Section

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This report documents the development of a procedure to determine the structural adequacy and need of seasonal axle load restrictions for Minnesota low-volume roads. This procedure has been implemented into a new program, TONN2010. Since it is anticipated that the results of this study will be widely used by Mn/DOT, city, and county engineers, as well as consulting engineers involved in analysis of the falling weight deflectometer (FWD) data collected by the transportation agencies, an emphasis was made on development of a simple, easy to implement procedure. To simplify the procedure’s implementation, the number of inputs was minimized. TONN2010 utilizes pavement layer thicknesses, FWD deflection basins, air temperature of the previous day, pavement surface temperature at the time of testing, pavement location, and anticipated traffic. All the inputs required by TONN2010 can be easily obtained by the user. Using these inputs, TONN2010 proceeds to 1) backcalculate layer moduli using the backcalculation procedure developed in this study, 2) adjust the backcalculated moduli using MnPAVE temperature and seasonal adjustment factors, and 3) estimate pavement axle load capacity by mechanistic-empirical analysis. In addition to detailing TONN2010, the report further describes selection of the damage models, development of the backcalculation design procedure, determination of the critical structural responses, development of new structural rating indexes, and finally the calibration and validation of the proposed procedure.

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Bly, Peter; Tompkins, Derek; Khazanovich, Lev. (2010). Allowable Axle Loads on Pavements. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/150095.

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