Validating an Endurance Limit for HMA Pavements: Laboratory Experiment and Algorithm Development
Project Data
Funds:
$839,456
Research Agency:
Arizona State University
Principal Investigator:
Michael Mamlouk
Effective Date:
9/1/2009
Completion Date:
9/30/2013
Comments:
The project final report is available as NCHRP Report 762.
The objectives of this research were to (1) carry out a laboratory experiment to identify the mixture and pavement layer design features related to an endurance limit for bottom-initiated fatigue cracking of HMA and (2) develop an algorithm to incorporate this endurance limit into the MEPDG and other selected pavement design methods.
STATUS: The project is complete. The project final report is available as NCHRP Report 762.
The following appendixes to NCHRP Report 762 are available here to download:
