NTL Record

Title Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavement: Design Using the AASHTO Pavement ME Design Program
Record ID 66673
Personal Name
Creator
Tayabji, Shiraz D.; Tyson, Sam
Corporate Creator United States. Federal Highway Administration
Corporate
Contributor
Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute
Publisher United States. Federal Highway Administration 
Publication Date 20130101
Language English
Abstract With the completion of the mechanistic-empirical pavement design guide (AASHTO 2008) and the recent availability of the AASHTOWare ʼ Pavement ME Design software (http://www.darwinme.org/MEDesign/Index.html), design of continuously reinforced concrete pavement (CRCP) has undergone significant changes. The primary purpose of this TechBrief, based on a more comprehensive Technical Summary (Roesler and Hiller 2013), is to provide engineers with the basic mechanistic-empirical design background and criteria utilized in the new ME Design software for CRCP. This document describes the main CRCP design inputs and identifies the most sensitive design inputs and features. Also, examples are included to demonstrate the use of the new software for the design of both new CRCP and CRCP overlays.
Rosap ID dot:41145
Rosap URL https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/41145
TRT Terms Mechanistic-empirical pavement design; Continuously reinforced concrete pavements
General Subjects Pavements, Reinforced concrete--Design and construction; Pavements, Reinforced concrete--Testing
Geographical
Coverage
United States
Report Number FHWA-HIF-13-027
Resource type Tech Report
URL https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/66000/66600/66673/hif13027.pdf
Alternative URL https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/pavement/concrete/pubs/hif13027/hif13027.pdf; https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/pavement/pub_details.cfm?id=871
Format PDF
Database NTL Digital Repository