The Roles of Accelerated Pavement Testing in Pavement Sustainability: Engineering, Environment, and Economics

877 Pages·2016·190.43 MB·English

by  José P. Aguiar-Moya

José P. Aguiar-Moya 
Adriana Vargas-Nordcbeck
Fabricio Leiva-Villacorta 
Luis G. Loría-Salazar Editors
The Roles of
Accelerated
Pavement Testing
in Pavement
Sustainability
Engineering, Environment, and
Economics
The Roles of Accelerated Pavement Testing
in Pavement Sustainability
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Jos P. Aguiar-Moya Adriana Vargas-Nordcbeck
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Fabricio Leiva-Villacorta Luis G. Lor a-Salazar
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Editors
The Roles of Accelerated
Pavement Testing
in Pavement Sustainability
Engineering, Environment, and Economics
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JoséP.Aguiar-Moya Fabricio Leiva-Villacorta
Universidad deCostaRica Universidad deCostaRica
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SanJosé SanJosé
CostaRica CostaRica
Adriana Vargas-Nordcbeck LuisG.Loría-Salazar
Universidad deCostaRica Universidad deCostaRica
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Preface
Accelerated Pavement Testing (APT) provides pavement engineers and practi-
tioners with valuable information concerning the behavior, performance, and life
expectancy of pavement structures in a very short period of time, by means of
controlledloadingconditions.Thisresultsinimproved understandingofpavement
structural behavior and response under different loading and environmental con-
ditions, comparison between different design methods and evaluation of new
materials and specifications, and identification of construction method’s deficien-
cies and sources of variability.
The previous has been highly valued by several transportation agencies where
the development of an APTprogram has been preferred to theoption ofanalyzing
pavementstructuresinthelongterm,undertheunderstandingthatanAPTtestdoes
not necessarily equal a long-term pavement performance study. Therefore, in most
recent years, several APT programs worldwide have been established or are in the
process thereof.
Thedatathat canbe generated byanAPTfacilityisincrediblyrich andhasthe
advantage that it very closely resembles the true process that pavements are sub-
jected to during their service lives. Consequently, more and more countries are
relying on their APT facilities to develop or calibrate their own pavement analysis
and design methodologies to ensure that the developed method and their expected
results are reliable and trustworthy, based on their local materials, traffic patterns,
construction practices, and environmental conditions.
Furthermore, with global increase in infrastructure construction prices, APT
capabilities have been identified to be very effective in discriminating between
different alternatives to ensure pavement performance, identifying the most
cost-effective methods, and as validation tools for pavement designs in new con-
struction and rehabilitation projects.
Consequently, at the National Laboratory of Material and Structural Models
of the University of Costa Rica we feel deeply honored to host the Fifth Edition
of the Accelerated Pavement Testing (APT) Conference. The conference is orga-
nized by the Transportation Research Board (TRB) through the Standing
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Committee on Full-Scale Accelerated Pavement Testing (AFD40). The committee
is concerned with the full-scale testing of traditional and innovative pavement
systems that reflect various construction conditions and maintenance practices,
wheretestingcanbeperformedusingconventionaloracceleratedmethodsutilizing
mobile or fixed equipment under in-situ controlled conditions. The fifth edition
of the conference follows a very successful meeting in Davis, California, where
APTfuturetrendsandneedswerediscussed,basedontheexperiencedevelopedat
over 25 APT programs worldwide.
The Fifth Edition of APT Conference originally received 76 abstracts from 16
countries. After rigorous review of these abstracts and full contributions by a sci-
entific committee of experts experienced in APT operations, data analysis, and/or
implementationoffindingsfromAPTexperiments,58paperswerefinallyaccepted
for presentation and discussion at the conference and publication in these
proceedings.
We would like to thank each of the authors for sharing their APT experiences,
and we would also like to express our gratitude to the APT2016 Conference
Scientific and Organizing Committees for reviewing the papers and helping to
maintain the conference series quality standard.
San José, Costa Rica José P. Aguiar-Moya
2016 Adriana Vargas-Nordcbeck
Fabricio Leiva-Villacorta
Luis G. Loría-Salazar
Conference Organization
Chairpersons
Luis G. Loría-Salazar, University of Costa Rica
Wynand JvdM Steyn, University of Pretoria
Imad L. Al-Qadi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
John Harvey, University of California Davis
Scientific Committee and Review Panel
José P. Aguiar-Moya, University of Costa Rica
Abubeker Worake Ahmed, National Road and Transport Research Institute,
Sweden
Kumar Anupam, TUDelft
Martin Arraigada, Empa
Jason Bausano, MWV Speciality Chemicals
Rongj Cao, JSTI Group
Armelle Chabot, IFSTTAR
Timothy R. Clyne, Minnesota Department of Transportation
Nicolaas F. Coetzee, Retired
Seosamh Costello, University of Auckland
Morris De Beer, CSIR, South Africa
Louw Du Plessis, CSIR, South Africa
Ahmed El Youssoufy, Laval University
Sigurdur Erlingsson, VTI, Sweden
Angeli M. Urbano-Gamez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Navneet Garg, FAA
Daba Gedafa, University of North Dakota
James Howard Greene, Florida Department of Transportation
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Erman Gungor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Xiaolong Guo, Auburn University
Jaime Hernandez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Pierre Hornych, IFSTTAR
Mustaque Hossain, Kansas State University
David Jones, University of California Pavement Research Center
Shahbaz Khan, CSIR, South Africa
Issam Khoury, Ohio University
Jeremy D. Lea, UC Pavement Research Center
Fabricio Leiva-Villacorta, University of Costa Rica
Liping Liu, Tongji University
Larry Lynch, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center
Rebecca S. McDaniel, Purdue University
John Metcalf, ARRB Group
Michael A. Moffatt, ARRB Group
Mahdi Nasimifar, University of Nevada, Reno
Julio C. Paniagua-Fernandez, University of California Pavement Research Center
Manfred N. Partl, EMPA
Raymond Buzz Powell, National Center for Asphalt Technology, Auburn
University
Lubos Remek, University of Zilina
Stefan A. Romanoschi, The University of Texas at Arlington
Milad Saghebfar, Louisiana Transportation Research Center
Aimin Sha, Chang’an University
Injun Song, SRA International, Inc.
Wynand JvdM Steyn, University of Pretoria
David H. Timm, Auburn University
Erol Tutumluer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Adriana Vargas-Nordcbeck, University of Costa Rica
Michael C. Vrtis, Auburn University
Bastian Wacker, BASt, Germany
Benjamin J. Worel, Minnesota Department of Transportation
Zhong Wu, Louisiana Transportation Research Center
Organizing Committee
Luis G. Loría-Salazar
Wynand JvdM Steyn
Imad L. Al-Qadi
John Harvey
José P. Aguiar-Moya
Adriana Vargas-Nordcbeck
Fabricio Leiva-Villacorta
ConferenceOrganization ix
Oscar Rodriguez-Quintana
Raquel Arriola-Guzmán
Gabriela Contreras-Matarrita
Rosa I. Cordero-Solano
Fabián Elizondo-Arrieta
Contents
Part I Overview of Accelerated Pavement Testing
A Brief History of Full-Scale Accelerated Pavement Testing
Facilities to 1962... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 3
John B. Metcalf
Four Decades of the Circular Test Track at the Institute
of Engineering UNAM Contributing to Pavement
Research in Mexico. .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 17
Noé Hernández, Alexandra Ossa and Francisco A. Rangel
Part II Establishment of New Accelerated Pavement
Testing Facilities
Design and Engineering Challenges in the Development
of the FAA’s Full Scale Accelerated Pavement Test
Facility NAPMRC.. .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 37
Murphy Flynn, Navneet Garg, Wilfredo Villafane and David Traverzo
Heavy Vehicle Simulator and Accelerated Pavement
Testing Facility at Rowan University.... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 53
Ayman W. Ali and Yusuf Mehta
Part III General Accelerated Pavement Testing
A Link of Full-Scale Accelerated Pavement Testing to Long-Term
Pavement Performance Study in the Western Cape Province
of South Africa .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 67
J.K. Anochie-Boateng, W. JvdM Steyn, C. Fisher and L. Truter
Accelerated Pavement Testing in Slovakia: APT Tester 105-03-01. .... 81
Lubos Remek, Jan Mikolaj, Matej Kyselica and Milan Škarupa
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