Chapter 6
Design
Mix design chooses the materials and their proportions; structural design chooses the layers and their thicknesses. Both start from the same inputs: the subgrade, the traffic loads and the environment.
Mix Design
- HMA Mix Design Fundamentals
- HMA Weight-Volume Terms and Relationships
- Superpave Overview
- Superpave Mix Design
- Superpave Gradation Requirements
- Marshall Mix Design
- Hveem Mix Design
- Job Mix Formula
- Laboratory vs. Field Conditions
- Batch Plant & Mix Design
- Mix Selection Guidance
- Mix Type Selection Example
- PCC Mix Design Fundamentals
- ACI Mix Design
- ACI Mix Design Example
- PCC Mix Design Testing
- PCC Admixtures
Structural Design
- Pavement Structure
- Methods
- Empirical Pavement Design
- Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design
- AASHO Road Test
- The AASHTO Reliability Concept
- Poisson's Ratio
- FHWA Bridge Formula
- 1993 AASHTO Flexible Pavement Structural Design
- Structural Number
- Flexible Pavement Empirical Design Example
- Flexible Pavement Response
- Flexible Pavement Mechanistic Models
- A Mechanistic Computer Program
- Flexible M-E Failure Criteria
- Failure Criteria Example
- Perpetual Pavements
- 1993 AASHTO Rigid Pavement Structural Design
- Rigid Pavement ESAL Equation
- Rigid Pavement Empirical Design Example
- Rigid Pavement Response
- Rigid Pavement Response Calculations
- Rigid Mechanistic Models
- Rigid M-E Failure Criteria
- Rigid Pavement Truck Types
- Joint Design
- Reinforcing Steel Design
- PPRC
- Backcalculation
Design Parameters
- Loads
- Equivalent Single Axle Load
- Flexible Pavement ESAL Equation
- AASHTO Vehicle Definitions
- Trucks and Buses
- Weigh-in-Motion
- Additional Tire Information
- Studded Tire Information
- Design Life
- Subgrade
- Stiffness and Strength Tests
- Elastic Modulus
- Resilient Modulus
- California Bearing Ratio
- Resistance Value
- Modulus of Subgrade Reaction
- Plate Load Test
- Shrinking and Swelling Soils
- Triaxial Test
- Environment
- Temperature Variations
- Frost Action
- Calculation of Frost Depth
- Stefan Formula
- Modified Berggren Formula
- Frost Action Mitigation
- Capillary Rise
- Drainage
- Surface Drainage
- Subsurface Drainage