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An evaluation of the flexible pavement design system FPS19
| dc.creator | Carmona, Gerardo M | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-07T22:51:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-06-07T22:51:51Z | |
| dc.date.created | 1998 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1998 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1998-THESIS-C37 | |
| dc.description | Due to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to digital@library.tamu.edu, referencing the URI of the item. | en |
| dc.description | Includes bibliographical references: p.98-101. | en |
| dc.description | Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | The flexible pavement design program used by the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) for the past 20 years, FPS1 1 , uses the Stiffness Coefficient, based on Dynaflect deflections, to characterize pavement strength. The difficulty in calculating pavement stiffness coefficients in a multi-layer pavement structure is a major deficiency in that version of FPS. A new version of the flexible pavement design program, FPS19, converts FPS to a linear elastic system using elastic moduli for pavement layer characterization. The elastic moduli for the various layers are backcalculated from deflection measurements obtained with a nondestructive testing technique using the Falling Weight Deflectometer (FWD), This report describes an evaluation of FPS19 conducted to establish the reliability of the program. The evaluation consists of performing a sensitivity analysis of the program to various inputs, comparing results obtained with the program with results from other existing pavement design procedures, including FPS1 1 , Texas Flexible Pavement System (TFPS), American Association of State Highways and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), and Asphalt Institute (Al), and conducting case studies on two TXDOT projects, | en |
| dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Texas A&M University | |
| dc.rights | This thesis was part of a retrospective digitization project authorized by the Texas A&M University Libraries in 2008. Copyright remains vested with the author(s). It is the user's responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holder(s) for re-use of the work beyond the provision of Fair Use. | en |
| dc.subject | civil engineering. | en |
| dc.subject | Major civil engineering. | en |
| dc.title | An evaluation of the flexible pavement design system FPS19 | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | civil engineering | en |
| thesis.degree.name | M.S. | en |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | en |
| dc.type.genre | thesis | en |
| dc.type.material | text | en |
| dc.format.digitalOrigin | reformatted digital | en |
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