Mechanistic-empirical pavement design guide: features and distinctive elements

This paper is aimed at describing the most distinctive features of the pavement design method known as Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide and to compare it with other renowned methodologies, while emphasizing its advantages and disadvantages. The MEPDG can accurately predict damage evolutio...

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Autores principales:	Martínez Díaz,Margarita, Pérez,Ignacio
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Escuela de Construcción Civil, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 2015
Materias:	Pavement design management incremental damage optimization
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0718-915X20150001000042015-05-08Mechanistic-empirical pavement design guide: features and distinctive elementsMartínez Díaz,MargaritaPérez,Ignacio Pavement design management incremental damage optimization This paper is aimed at describing the most distinctive features of the pavement design method known as Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide and to compare it with other renowned methodologies, while emphasizing its advantages and disadvantages. The MEPDG can accurately predict damage evolution, thus helping to choose the most appropriate design for new pavements or to schedule the conservation of the already existing ones. After analyzing different pavement design and management methods, the MEPDG stands out as the most comprehensive one as it takes into account and properly combines the greatest number of factors that affect the pavement. Therefore, some countries outside the USA have already imported and calibrated this method, what, at the same time, allows the scientific community to carry out comparative studies and improve its small deficiencies.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessEscuela de Construcción Civil, Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileRevista de la construcción v.14 n.1 20152015-04-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-915X2015000100004en10.4067/S0718-915X2015000100004
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spellingShingle	Pavement design management incremental damage optimization Martínez Díaz,Margarita Pérez,Ignacio Mechanistic-empirical pavement design guide: features and distinctive elements
description	This paper is aimed at describing the most distinctive features of the pavement design method known as Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide and to compare it with other renowned methodologies, while emphasizing its advantages and disadvantages. The MEPDG can accurately predict damage evolution, thus helping to choose the most appropriate design for new pavements or to schedule the conservation of the already existing ones. After analyzing different pavement design and management methods, the MEPDG stands out as the most comprehensive one as it takes into account and properly combines the greatest number of factors that affect the pavement. Therefore, some countries outside the USA have already imported and calibrated this method, what, at the same time, allows the scientific community to carry out comparative studies and improve its small deficiencies.
author	Martínez Díaz,Margarita Pérez,Ignacio
author_facet	Martínez Díaz,Margarita Pérez,Ignacio
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title	Mechanistic-empirical pavement design guide: features and distinctive elements
title_short	Mechanistic-empirical pavement design guide: features and distinctive elements
title_full	Mechanistic-empirical pavement design guide: features and distinctive elements
title_fullStr	Mechanistic-empirical pavement design guide: features and distinctive elements
title_full_unstemmed	Mechanistic-empirical pavement design guide: features and distinctive elements
title_sort	mechanistic-empirical pavement design guide: features and distinctive elements
publisher	Escuela de Construcción Civil, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
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Mechanistic-empirical pavement design guide: features and distinctive elements

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