Article 8 # 4'2025

© Tatyana Tereshchenko, Candidate of Chemical Sciences (PhD), Senior Research Officer,
ORCID: 0000-0001-7584-9031,
e-mail: chemistry@nidi.org.ua
(“NIDI” SE)
DISTRESSES AND DEFECTS OF A ROAD PAVEMENT.
TERMINOLOGY AND ASSESSMENT OF THE ROAD PAVEMENT CONDITION
DOI: 10.33868/0365-8392-2025-4-285-49-55
Abstract. The paper is aimed on recent approaches for the categorization of road pavements distresses and defects for purposes of their identification and road pavement condition estimation to determine the technical and economic strategy for maintenance, repair and rehabilitation of motor roads.
The analysis of the categorization of road pavement damage and defects was performed, on the basis of which approaches to identifying damage and defects of the asphalt concrete road pavements and jointed concrete road pavements as well as the approaches to determining the severity levels were stated. Also the possibilities for using the results of survey of motor roads with estimating the distresses and defects severity level for an extended qualitative evaluation of road pavements by the pavement condition indexes were briefly analyzed.
Conclusions state the necessity for implementation of the world-wide practice of road pavements condition survey and estimation in two interrelated objects of a standardization at national level: development of a national terminology standard for damage and defects in road surfaces, which will ensure the consistency with terminology of various standardization systems; development and implementation of internationally recognized standard schemes for quantitative assessment of road surface condition, which will ensure the consistency of operational maintenance strategies and the implementation of repairs and reconstruction of highways.
Keywords: road pavement; road pavement condition; road pavement condition index; road pavement defects; road pavement distresses; severity level.
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