'Simulation of Shakedown Behavior for Flexible Pavement's Unbound Granular Layer

Full-depth asphalt concrete pavements are generally designed to control fatigue cracking and reduce potential rutting when subjected to repeated heavy traffic loads. A particular interesting question is whether a limit load exists below which excitation shakedown in the sense that the granular layer...

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Main Authors: Nega, Ainalem, Nikraz, Hamid, Al-Qadi, I.
Other Authors: University of California at Davis
Format: Conference Paper
Published: American Society of Civil Engineers 2015
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Online Access:http://ascelibrary.org/doi/book/10.1061/9780784479216
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15489
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author Nega, Ainalem
Nikraz, Hamid
Al-Qadi, I.
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Nega, Ainalem
Nikraz, Hamid
Al-Qadi, I.
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description Full-depth asphalt concrete pavements are generally designed to control fatigue cracking and reduce potential rutting when subjected to repeated heavy traffic loads. A particular interesting question is whether a limit load exists below which excitation shakedown in the sense that the granular layer does not accumulate further deformation. Although pavement design guides give more weight to asphalt concrete layer failures, granular failure may not be ignored; especially for thin layers and/or heavy load. The behavior of granular layers used in base and, sub-base layers of flexible pavement is complicated due to its nonlinear elastoplastic response when subjected to dynamic traffic loading. The objective of this paper is to present a new simplified simulation model for the Shakedown behavior of granular layer in flexible pavement. This method is integrated with Mohr-Coulomb criterion, which is used and applied to simulate the response of unbound granular layers to dynamic loading in a numerical analysis. The results of analysis are then compared to simplify the results of modeling without considering shakedown effects and then, the conclusions are drawn.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-154892019-02-19T05:34:54Z 'Simulation of Shakedown Behavior for Flexible Pavement's Unbound Granular Layer Nega, Ainalem Nikraz, Hamid Al-Qadi, I. University of California at Davis Numerical simulation Mohr Coulomb criterion Dynamic analysis Shakedown Unbound granular Layer (UGL) Flexible pavement Full-depth asphalt concrete pavements are generally designed to control fatigue cracking and reduce potential rutting when subjected to repeated heavy traffic loads. A particular interesting question is whether a limit load exists below which excitation shakedown in the sense that the granular layer does not accumulate further deformation. Although pavement design guides give more weight to asphalt concrete layer failures, granular failure may not be ignored; especially for thin layers and/or heavy load. The behavior of granular layers used in base and, sub-base layers of flexible pavement is complicated due to its nonlinear elastoplastic response when subjected to dynamic traffic loading. The objective of this paper is to present a new simplified simulation model for the Shakedown behavior of granular layer in flexible pavement. This method is integrated with Mohr-Coulomb criterion, which is used and applied to simulate the response of unbound granular layers to dynamic loading in a numerical analysis. The results of analysis are then compared to simplify the results of modeling without considering shakedown effects and then, the conclusions are drawn. 2015 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15489 http://ascelibrary.org/doi/book/10.1061/9780784479216 American Society of Civil Engineers fulltext
spellingShingle Numerical simulation
Mohr Coulomb criterion
Dynamic analysis
Shakedown
Unbound granular Layer (UGL)
Flexible pavement
Nega, Ainalem
Nikraz, Hamid
Al-Qadi, I.
'Simulation of Shakedown Behavior for Flexible Pavement's Unbound Granular Layer
title 'Simulation of Shakedown Behavior for Flexible Pavement's Unbound Granular Layer
title_full 'Simulation of Shakedown Behavior for Flexible Pavement's Unbound Granular Layer
title_fullStr 'Simulation of Shakedown Behavior for Flexible Pavement's Unbound Granular Layer
title_full_unstemmed 'Simulation of Shakedown Behavior for Flexible Pavement's Unbound Granular Layer
title_short 'Simulation of Shakedown Behavior for Flexible Pavement's Unbound Granular Layer
title_sort 'simulation of shakedown behavior for flexible pavement's unbound granular layer
topic Numerical simulation
Mohr Coulomb criterion
Dynamic analysis
Shakedown
Unbound granular Layer (UGL)
Flexible pavement
url http://ascelibrary.org/doi/book/10.1061/9780784479216
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15489