Evaluation of fatigue cracking performance in a debonded asphalt pavement

Seonghwan Cho; Kangjin “Caleb” Lee; Kamyar C. Mahboub; Jongmyung Jeon; Y. Richard Kim

doi:10.1007/s42947-019-0046-8

Evaluation of fatigue cracking performance in a debonded asphalt pavement

Seonghwan Cho
, Kangjin “Caleb” Lee
, Kamyar C. Mahboub
, Jongmyung Jeon
, Y. Richard Kim

Civil Engineering

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Abstract

An asphalt pavement typically has one or more asphalt concrete layers over underlying granular materials. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of debonded pavement structures on fatigue cracking performance using computational analysis program (FlexPAVE™). Both pavement response analysis and pavement performance analysis were conducted to determine the distribution of stresses and strains at the surface and interface of asphalt layers, and to evaluate fatigue cracking performance of debonded pavement structures. A debonded pavement structure can result in much higher tensile stress levels than the fully bonded case, which would consequently lead to the poorer fatigue cracking performance. The FlexPAVE™ simulation results revealed that the debonded surface layers in an asphalt pavement could lead to a reduction of the fatigue performance life of the pavement structure by approximately 90%.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	388-395
Number of pages	8
Journal	International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology
Volume	12
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s42947-019-0046-8
State	Published - Jul 1 2019

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© 2019, Chinese Society of Pavement Engineering. Production and hosting by Springer Nature.

Funding

This research is sponsored by the North Carolina Department of Transportation under project HWY-2013-04. The authors truly acknowledge the financial support from the North Carolina Department of Transportation. Additional support was provided by University of Kentucky.

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University of Kentucky
North Carolina Department of Transportation	HWY-2013-04
North Carolina Department of Transportation

Keywords

Debonded pavement structures
Fatigue cracking performance
FlexPAVE™
Pavement response analysis and pavement performance analysis
Tensile stress

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Civil and Structural Engineering
Mechanics of Materials

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