Network-Levle Pavement Deflection Testing and Structural Evaluation

摘要

Structural evaluaiton provides valuable information about the expected behavior of pavemetns and can be very useful at the network level of pavement managemetn for project prioritization purposes. However, due tio the expense invoved in data collection and analysis, structural capacity is usually not determined at the network level. In Kansas, due to limited resource and the large size of the network (10 971 miles), annual network-level structural data collection at the same rate (five to ten tests per mile) as the project level is not realistic.