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Evaluation of fatigue cracking performance in a debonded asphalt pavement

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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%.

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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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  1. Division of Research and Development, Indiana Department of Transportation, P.O. Box 2279, West Lafayette, Indiana, 47906, USA

    Seonghwan Cho

  2. Dept. of Civil, Construction, & Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University, Campus Box 7908, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695-7908, USA

    Kangjin “Caleb” Lee & Y. Richard Kim

  3. Civil Engineering, Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 40506, USA

    Kamyar C. Mahboub

  4. Dept. of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 47907-2051, USA

    Jongmyung Jeon

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Cho, S., Lee, K.“., Mahboub, K.C. et al. Evaluation of fatigue cracking performance in a debonded asphalt pavement. Int. J. Pavement Res. Technol. 12, 388–395 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42947-019-0046-8

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