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Title: Resilient modulus of freeze-thaw affected granular soils for pavement design and evaluation. Part 2, Field validation tests at Winchendon, Massachusetts, test sections
Authors: United States. Federal Aviation Administration
United States. Federal Highway Administration
Johnson, T. C. (Thaddeus C.)
Bentley, Diane L.
Cole, David M.
Keywords: Asphalt concrete
Elastic layered system analysis
Falling weight deflectometer tests
Frost action
Frost penetration
Frost heave
Frost heaving
Pavements
Granular soil
Moisture tension
Nonlinear materials characterizations
Pavement design
Repeated load plate-bearing tests
Repeated load triaxial tests
Resilient modulus
Seasonal change in modulus
Thaw weaking
Pavement bases
Base courses
Unbound base course
Runways
Roads
Publisher: Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (U.S.)
Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.)
Series/Report no.: CRREL report ; 86-12.
Description: CRREL Report
Abstract: Stress-deformation data for six granular soils ranging from sandy silt to dense-graded crushed stone were obtained from in-situ tests and laboratory tests. Surface deflections were measured in the in-situ tests, with repeated-load plate-bearing and falling-weight deflectometer equipment, when the six granular soils were frozen, thawed, and at various stages of recovery from thaw weakening. The measured deflections were used to judge the validity of procedures developed for laboratory triaxial tests to determine nonlinear resilient moduli of specimens in the frozen, thawed, and recovering states. The validity of the nonlinear resilient moduli, expressed as functions of externally applied stress and moisture tension, was confirmed by using the expressions to calculate surface deflections that were found to compare well with deflections measured in the in-situ tests. The tests on specimens at various stages of recovery are especially significant because they show a strong dependence of the resilient modulus on moisture tension, leading to the conclusion that predictions or in-situ measurements of moisture tension can be used to evaluate expected seasonal variation in the resilient modulus of granular soils.
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11681/9326
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