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NCHRP Synthesis 20-05/Topic 42-08 [Final (Synthesis)]

Full-Scale Accelerated Pavement Testing, 2000 – 2011
[ NCHRP 20-05 (Synthesis of Information Related to Highway Practices) ]

  Project Data
Funds: $35,000
Staff Responsibility: Jon M. Williams
Effective Date: 7/1/2010
Fiscal Year: 2010

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 433: Significant Findings from Full-Scale Accelerated Pavement Testing documents and summarizes significant findings from the various experimental activities associated with full-scale accelerated pavement testing (f-sAPT) programs that have taken place between 2000 and 2011.

The report also identifies gaps in knowledge related to f-sAPT and where future research may be needed.

NCHRP Synthesis 433 is designed to expand the f-sAPT base of knowledge documented in NCHRP Syntheses
325 and 235, both with the same title of Significant Findings from Full-Scale Accelerated Pavement Testing.

f-sAPT is the controlled application of a wheel loading, at or above the appropriate legal load limit, to a pavement system to determine pavement response in a compressed time period. The acceleration of damage is achieved by one or more of the following factors: increased repetitions, modified loading conditions, imposed climatic conditions, and thinner pavements with a decreased structural capacity which have shorter design lives.

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