The coupling effect between tire and pavement is an intensively researched subject to analyse the dynamic interaction of the vehicle-pavement system. By considering the 11.00 R20 tire and expressway asphalt pavement, ABAQUS software was employed in this study to establish an improved model for simulating the coupling effect, in which the tire rubber was taken as a neoHookean material and the pa...

This paper describes the application of adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) methodology for the backcalculation of airport flexible pavement layer moduli. The proposed ANFIS-based backcalculation approach employs a hybrid learning procedure to construct a non-linear input-output mapping based on qualitative aspects of human knowledge and pavement engineering experience incorporated in...

The paper presents results of sensitivity analysis to crack propagation of a pavement bituminous layered structure using the Finite Element Method (FEM) and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). The performed preliminary study determined stresses and displacements in the pavement layer system. The pavement structure consisting of asphalt layers, a base layer, subbase and subgrade layers was analyze...

Assessment of pavement distresses is one of the important parts of pavement management systems to adopt the most effective road maintenance strategy. In the last decade, extensive studies have been done to develop automated systems for pavement distress processing based on machine vision techniques. One of the most important structural components of computer vision is the feature extraction met...

Long term monitoring of pavement requires a cost effective and sustainable power supply strategy. We developed an energy harvest system that can be installed in the pavement structure. The system can harvest energy from the temperature difference between the pavement surface and the subgrade soil using thermoelectric modules. In this paper, through computer-aided simulations, we come up with an...

Each of pavements’ life cycle phases such as material extraction, transportation, construction, operation, rehabilitation, and end-of-life emits greenhouse gases. Such emissions can be influenced by climate change via changes in the rates of pavement deterioration and thus intensity and frequency of maintenance and rehabilitation. However, climate change has not been given full considerations i...

Anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have become significant environmental indicators in analyzing the comparative environmental impacts of conventional and newly developed alternative systems or techniques. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is considered an accepted and systematic methodology to calculate the amount of carbon released from all the processes of a system/technique, helping use...