Traffic and Highway Engineering
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Author: Garber, Nicholas J.
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 20, Problem 8P
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The tensile stress imposed at night by wheel load of a concrete pavement.
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A tyre with 230 kPa air pressure distributes a load over an area with circular contact radius of 200 mm. The pavement was constructed with a material that has a modulus of elasticity of 450 MPa and a Poisson's ratio of 0.40.
1.1 Calculate the radial-horizontal stress and deflection at a point on the pavement surface under the center of the tyre load. [Function values table: A = 1 B = 0 C = 0 E = 0.5 H = 2 ]
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