Advanced Pavement Analysis and Design

Catalog description

This course covers topics on both the classical empirical and current mechanistic rigid and flexible pavement analysis methods which includes the AASHTO 1986/1993 design method and the mechanistic, the Asphalt Institute Method, and PavementME methods for both flexible and rigid pavements, respectively. Other relevant topics include traffic loading, pavement subgrade characterization, pavement evaluation, environmental effects, structural design of rigid and asphalt pavements, pavement rehabilitation and pavement economics.