© Tatiana Tereshchenko, Candidate of Chemical Sciences (Ph. D.), Senior Research Officer
ORCID: 0000-0001-5206-9921;
© Serhii Illiash, Chief of Centre of Road Materials and Technologies
ORCID: 0000-0002-3001-8012
DerzhdorNDI SE
Scopes of standard methods for testing road pavements by loading
DOI: 10.33868/0365-8392-2022-1-269-2-66-74
Abstract. The standard methods for testing road pavements by loading have been widely applied to assess the road pavements maintenance during design, construction and survey stages and especially for the Pavement Management System purposes. These test methods were classified by the type of an applied load as static loading, cyclic loading or impulse loading tests. The paper reviews the above mentioned test methods from the aspects of their scopes, advantages, and general requirements for testing in accordance with the world-wide experience in road building industry.
Static loading shall be positioned as the simplest and low-cost test method that permits the testing of relatively thick pavement constructions but does not allow the measurements of deflection bowl. Cyclic loading is more convenient for thinner pavements testing and, together with surface moduli, permits the measurements of deflection bowl. Impulse loading is the most representative test method that simulates traffic loading most adequately and permits the deflection bowl measurements as well. Impulse load can be applied using “high-weigh” device such as falling weight deflectometer, or light weight deflectometer thus given the possibility for testing road pavements with a monolithic upper layer or an unbound layer (base layer, sub-base, sub-grade layer).
Standard methods for testing road pavements by loading were widely implemented to measure the surface moduli, the deflection bowl values and also, for rigid pavements, the load transfer efficiency in an area of joint or crack. Surface moduli and deflection bowl values are effectively used, mainly through the back-calculation processes, to assess the stiffness of pavement layers, the life span of road pavements and also for the project or network level testing of road pavements.
These tasks rise as high actual for Ukraine intended to be integrated in the EU transport system, where trucks weighing up to 40 tonnes are permitted for international hauling. Considering the necessity for expansion of network level testing to assess the bearing capacity of road pavements and to set restrictions for trafficking at some critical conditions especially seasonal those, the conclusions state the need to process related national standards as national normative documents aiming on:
– implementation of standard international classification of methods for testing the road pavements by loading considering the type of loading;
– widening the requirements for proceeding of tests;
– improvement the pavement management system.
Keywords: road pavement; non-destructive testing; static loading; cyclic loading; dynamic loading.
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