Advances in Pavement Design through Full-scale Accelerated Pavement Testing

David Jones (Queen's University Belfast); John Harvey (University of California, Davis, USA Tiger Health Limited; Imad L Al-Qadi (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Angel Mateos

• Part 1: Overview of accelerated pavement testingcA history of modern accelerated performance testing of pavement structures; A decade of full-scale accelerated pavement testing; Part 2: Establishment of new accelerated pavement testing facilities PaveLab and Heavy Vehicle Simulator implementation at the National Laboratory of Materials and Testing Models of the University of Costa Rica;cThe Universidad de los Andes linear test track apparatus;cDesign and implementation of a full-scale accelerated pavement testing facility for extreme regional climates in China;cPart 3: Review of the impact of accelerated pavement testing programs on practice Significant findings from the first three research cycles at the NCAT pavement test track; A ten year review of the Florida's accelerated pavement testing program; Fourteen years of accelerated pavement testing at Kansas State University; The implementation of accelerated pavement testing findings into industry practice in New Zealand; History of construction contracting methods used at MnROAD; International case studies in support of successful applications of accelerated pavement testing in pavement engineering; Part 4: Instrumentation for accelerated pavement testing Semi-automated crack analysis system for the Heavy Vehicle Simulator; The CAPTIF unbound pavement strain measurement system; Detection of debonding and vertical cracks with non destructive techniques during accelerated pavement testing; Rut depth measurement method and analysis at the FAA's National Airport Pavement Test Facility; Direct measurement of residual stress in airport concrete pavements; A modular data acquisition system for Heavy Vehicle Simulator tests; Simulating the effects of instrumentation on measured pavement response; Part 5: Accelerated pavement testing on asphalt concrete pavements Accelerated loading, laboratory, and field testing studies to fast-track the implementation of warm mix asphalt in California; Assessment of response and performance of perpetual pavements with warm mix asphalt surfaces at the Ohio Accelerated Pavement Load Facility;Structural evaluation and short-term performance of sustainable pavement sections at the NCAT pavement test track; Evaluation of a rubber modified asphalt mixture at the 2009 NCAT test track; Accelerated performance of a failed pavement on a soft clay subgrade after rehabilitation with high polymer mix at the NCAT pavement test track; Evaluation of a heavy polymer modified asphalt binder using accelerated pavement testing; Accelerated pavement testing of low-volume paved roads with geocell reinforcement; Accelerated pavement testing of two flexible road pavements to assess long-term structural performance; Evaluation of a flexible pavement structure in an accelerated pavement test; How low is too low? Assessing the risk of low air voids using accelerated pavement testing; Exploratory evaluation of cracking performance of a 4.75mm NMAS overlay using full-scale accelerated loading; Rutting resistance of asphalt pavements with fine sand subgrade under full-scale trafficking at high and ambient air temperature; Initial tests results from the MLS10 Mobile Load Simulator in Switzerland; Part 6: Accelerated pavement testing on portland cement concrete pavements Performance of thin jointed concrete pavements subjected to accelerated traffic loading at the MnROAD facility; Accelerated pavement testing experiment of a pavement made of fiber-reinforced roller-compacted concrete; Provisional results from accelerated pavement testing of roller-compacted concrete in South Africa; Accelerated pavement testing on slab and block pavements using the MLS10 Mobile Load Simulator; Environmental and load effect on dowelled and undowelled portland cement concrete slabs; Study of failure mechanisms in rubblized concrete pavements with hot mix asphalt overlays; Part 7: Accelerated pavement testing to evaluate functional performance Accelerated traffic load testing of seismic expansion joints for the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge; Accelerated testing of noise performance of pavements; Performance evaluation of unsurfaced pavements using the UIUC Accelerated Transportation Loading Assembly; Use of accelerated pavement testing to validate Ride Quality Index Data; Part 8: Relating laboratory tests to performance using accelerated pavement testing, Towards improved characterization of cemented pavement materials; Validating permanent deformation tests using accelerated pavement testing; The implementation of findings from accelerated pavement testing in pavement design and construction practice; Recommended asphalt binder fatigue performance specification from full-scale accelerated pavement tests considering aging effects; Part 9: Development and calibration of empirical and mechanistic-empirical pavement design procedures and models. Calibrating full-scale accelerated pavement testing data using long-term pavement performance data; Using point level accelerated pavement testing data for calibration of performance models; Use of mechanistic-empirical performance simulations to adjust and compare results from accelerated pavement testing; Calibration of incremental-recursive rutting prediction models in CalME using Heavy Vehicle Simulator experiments; Lessons learnt from the application of the CalME asphalt fatigue model to experimental data from the CEDEX test track; Modeling of flexible pavement structure behavior - comparisons with Heavy Vehicle Simulator measurements; Evaluation of the aggressiveness of different multi-axle loads using accelerated pavement tests; Accelerated pavement testing-based pavement design catalogue. Part 10: Benefit-cost analysis of accelerated pavement testing Developments in evaluating the benefits of implemented accelerated pavement testing results in California; Results of a case study determining economic benefits of accelerated pavement testing research in California