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Title: Resilient modulus of freeze-thaw affected granular soils for pavement design and evaluation. Part 4, Field validation tests at Albany County Airport
Authors: United States. Federal Aviation Administration
United States. Federal Highway Administration
Johnson, T. C. (Thaddeus C.)
Crowe, Andrew
Erickson, Mark
Cole, David M.
Keywords: Airfields
Asphalt concrete
Falling-weight deflectometer tests
Frost action
Frost damage
Albany County (N.Y.)
Moisture tension
Pavement design
Pavements
Repeated-load triaxial tests
Resilient modulus
Roads
Thaw weakening
Publisher: Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (U.S.)
Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.)
Series/Report no.: CRREL report ; 86-13.
Description: Technical report
Abstract: Stress-deformation data for unbound base, subbase, and silty sand subgrade soils in two airfield pavements were obtained from in situ tests and laboratory tests. Surface deflections were measured in the in situ tests, with a falling-weight deflectometer, when the soils were frozen, thawed, and at various states 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.
Rights: Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11681/9463
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