Book Description

Transportation Research Record contains the following papers: Analysis by high-speed profile of jointed concrete pavement slab curvatures (Byrum, CR); Fracture energy test for highway concrete : determining the effect of coarse aggregate on crack propagation resistance (Jensen, EA and Hansen, W); Mechanistic design framework for spalling distress (Wang, L and Zollinger, DG); Temperature gradient of concrete pavement slab overlaid with asphalt surface course (Nishizawa, T, Shimeno, S, Komaatsubara, A and Koyanagawa, M); Foundation modeling for jointed concrete pavements (Davids, WG); Three-dimensional analysis of continously reinforced concrete pavements (Kim, SM, Won, MC and McCullough, BF); Axisymmetric finite element modeling of block pavement subjected to repeated loading (Chua, KM, Askree, Z and Shackel, B); Mechanistic design of thin whitetopping pavments in Colorado (Tarr, SM, Sheehan, MJ and Ardani, A); Incorporation of reliability into mechanistic-emperical pavement design (Timm, DH, Newcomb, DE and Galambos, TV); Analytical predictions of seasonal variations in flexible pavements : Minnesota road research project site (Birgisson, B, Ovik, J and NewcombDE); Evaluation of probability distribution function for the life of pavement structures (Romanoschi, SA and Metcalf, JB); Mechanistic-empirical rut prediction model for in-service pavements (Kim, HB, Buch, N and Park, DY); Top-down cracking in Washington State asphalt concrete wearing courses (Uhlmeyer, JS, Willoughby, K, Pierce, LM and Mahoney, JP); Load and displacement prediction for shakedown analysis of layered pavements (Shiau, SH and Yu, HS); Impact of changing traffic characteristics and environmental conditions on flexible pavments (Zhang, Z, Leidy, JP, Kawa, I and Hudson, WR); Mechanistic-emperical approach for modeling reflection cracking (Eltahan, AA and Lytton, RL); Cost-effectiveness of paving fabrics to control reflective cracking (Buttlar, WG, Bozkurt, D and Dempsey, BJ); Rubblization of concrete pavements : field investigation (Niederquell, MG, Baladi, GY and Chatti, K); Construction and performance of fly ash-stabilized cold in-place recycled asphalt pavement in Wisconsin (Crovetti, JA); Evaluation of concrete pavement rehabilitation techniques on I-65 in Indiana (Gulen, S and Noureldin, S); Pavement rehabilitation selection based on mechanistic analysis and field diagnosis of falling weight deflectometer data : Virginia experience (Zaghloul, S and Elfino, M).