Madhar Mohammad Taamneh
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 263
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"It is a well recognized fact that pavements with poor subsurface drainage properties prematurely exhibit distress and have higher life-cycle cost. Thus, providing adequate subsurface drainage in a pavement system to remove the infiltrated moisture in a timely manner is an important design consideration. Currently, Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) accepts several types of materials specifications for use as drainable base materials. They are ODOT 307 (NJ, IA, and CE), ODOT 308 (asphalt treated), and ODOT 306 (cement treated). However, the effectiveness of these base materials in actual service has not been conclusively established in previous ODOT studies. Consequently, a research project, so-called ATB-90, was initiated in 2002 to provide additional data to asses the merits of the drainable bases in the asphalt pavement. At the present time, most of the current drainage criteria have been developed on the basis of describing water flow in saturated conditions. Yet this could happen in a very limited circumstance and time duration. In this study, a transient analysis using SEEP/W program was conducted to simulate water flow in a flexible pavement system. A new predictive equation along with design charts for estimating the time required to drain 50 percent saturation were developed by utilizing the results of SEEP/W analysis. The predictive equation could be used to design a flexible pavement system for effective subsurface drainage."--Abstract.