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Chapter 4, Problem 24P
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The thickness of the slab of the rigid pavement.
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A rigid pavement is to be designed to provide a service life and has an initial PSI of 4.4 and a TSI of 2.5. The modulus of subgrade
reaction is determined to be 300 lb/in³. For design, the daily car, pickup truck, and light van traffic is 20,000; and the daily truck
traffic consists of 200 passes of single-unit trucks with single and tandem axles, and 410 passes of tractor semi-trailer trucks with
single, tandem, and triple axles. The axle weights are
cars, pickups, light vans = two 2000-lb single axles (equivalency factor = 0.0002)
single-unit trucks = 10,000-lb steering, single axle (equivalency factor = 0.081)
= 22,000-lb drive, tandem axle (equivalency factor = 0.305)
tractor semi-trailer trucks = 12,000-lb steering, single axle (equivalency factor = 0.1750)
= 18,000-lb drive, tandem axle (equivalency factor = 0.132)
= 50,000-lb trailer, triple axle (equivalency factor = 3.02)
Using the AASHTO rigid design procedure, design a pavement for a provincial road with an expected design ESAL of 20 x 106. The pavement structure is to consist of Portland cement concrete with an elastic modulus
of 5.0 x 106 psi and a modulus of rupture of 550 psi, and a 12 in. thick unbounded granular material as subbase. The pavement is to be plain jointed and jointed reinforced concrete with tied P.C.C. shoulder and having
load transfer devices. The climate consists of a wet season (November-April) and a dry season (May-October). Freezing of the subbase and subgrade is considered negligible. The elastic modulus of the subbase is 20,000
psi during the dry season and 15,000 psi during the wet season. The elastic modulus of the subgrade is 6,000 psi during the dry season and 3,500 psi during the wet season. The subgrade depth to the bedrock is 5ft. It
is estimated that it will take a day for water to drain from the pavement and that the pavement will be saturated about 20 percent of…
A flexible pavement is designed to last 10 years to withstand truck traffic that consists only of trucks with two 18-kip single axles. The pavement is designed for a soil CBR of 10, an initial PSI of 5.0, a TSI of 2.5, an overall standard deviation of 0.40 and a reliability of 90%, and the structural number was determined to be 6. On one section of this roadway, beneath an underpass, an engineer uses an 8-inch rigid pavement in an attempt to have it last longer before resurfacing. How many years will this rigid-pavement section last? (Given the same traffic conditions, modulus of rupture = 800 lb/in2, modulus of elasticity = 5,000,000 lb/in2, load transfer coefficient of 3.0 and drainage coefficient of 1.0.).
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