Pavement
Technical Basis of Austroads Pavement Design Charts for Light Traffic
- Publication no: AP-T35-05
- ISBN: 1 921139 10 2
- Published: 25 November 2005
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The 2004 Austroads Pavement Design Guide provides guidance on the design of new pavements for moderate-to-heavily trafficked roads. For lightly trafficked roads, Austroads have published a companion document ‘Pavement Design for Lightly Trafficked Roads. A Supplement to the Austroads Pavement Design Guide’.
This report details the development of design charts for lightly trafficked roads that are included in this publication.
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. DESIGN CHARTS FOR ASPHALT SURFACED PAVEMENTS
- 2.1. Scope
- 2.2. Input Parameters
- 2.2.1. Standard Axle Loading
- 2.2.2. Traffic Loading Parameters
- 2.2.3. Asphalt Characteristics
- 2.2.4. Elastic Characterisation of Granular Material
- 2.2.5. Elastic Characterisation of Subgrade
- 2.2.6. Desired Project Reliability
- 2.2.7. Construction Tolerances
- 2.3. Revised Design Charts Considering both Asphalt Fatigue and
- 2.3.1. Development of Charts
- 2.3.2. Comparison between the 1998 Design Charts and the Revised Charts
- 2.4. Revised Design Charts Considering Permanent Deformation Only
- 2.4.1. Development of Charts
- 2.4.2. Comparison of 1998 and Revised Charts
- 3. GRANULAR PAVEMENTS WITH THIN BITUMINOUS
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Development of the Chart
- 3.3. Comparison of Empirical and Mechanistic Design Charts
- 4. RIGID PAVEMENT DESIGN CHARTS
- 4.1. General
- 4.2. Methodology
- 4.3. Input Parameters
- 4.3.1. Project Reliability and Load Safety Factor
- 4.3.2. Concrete Shoulders
- 4.4. Base Thickness Design
- 4.5. Comparison between the 1998 Design Tables and the Example
- 5. SUMMARY
- REFERENCES
- APPENDIX A. 1998 DESIGN CHART INPUT PARAMETERS
- APPENDIX B. REVISED FLEXIBLE EXAMPLE DESIGN
- APPENDIX C: REVISED FLEXIBLE PAVEMENT EXAMPLE
- APPENDIX D: SUMMARY OF COMPARISONS BETWEEN THE
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