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Pavement Tests

Tests on whole pavement structures, from flexural fatigue beams to full-scale accelerated pavement testing with heavy vehicle simulators.

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  • Accelerated Pavement Testing (APT)

    Accelerated pavement testing (APT) refers to “the controlled application of a prototype wheel loading, at or above the appropriate legal load limit to a prototype or actual, layered, structural pavement system to determine pavement…

  • HVSIA

    Although Accelerated Pavement Testing (APT) is generally recognized as one of the most effective methods of evaluating improvements in pavement design and performance, it is expensive relative to other, typical pavement research activities.

  • HVS

    HVS stands for Heavy Vehicle Simulator. It's a large piece of equipment that allows for repeated passage of a truck or aircraft wheel over a pavement, simulating the action of many of such wheels from heavy vehicles.