Influence of Anisotropic Behavior of Aggregate Base on Flexible Pavement Design Life

기층의 이방성 거동이 아스팔트 도로 설계수명에 미치는 영향

  • 김성희 (미국 Southern Polytechnic State University 공과대학 건설공학과)
  • Published : 2009.03.15

Abstract

This paper presents the development of transfer function accounting for cross-anisotropic behavior of aggregate base material for the pavement thickness design. The stress distributions predicted by nonlinear cross-anisotropic finite element program were realistic by eliminating excessive tensile stress at the bottom of the base layer and the critical pavement responses predicted by nonlinear cross-anisotropic model are higher than those predicted by linear or nonlinear isotropic models (Kim, 2004, Kim et at., 2005). Since the previously developed transfer functions such as Asphalt Institute and Chevron models, etc. were based on the critical responses obtained from linear isotropic model, those equations are not appropriate for the thickness design nonlinear cross-anisotropic base behavior. Therefore, the development of usable transfer functions for nonlinear cross-anisotropic model is ever more important. When the newly developed transfer functions were compared with AASHTO method for the thickness design, the newly developed transfer functions produce approximately 25mm reduced UAB thickness in AASHTO thickness design and this illustrates that linear isotropic model results in more conservative pavement design.

이 논문에서는 아스팔트 도로 설계에 필요한 기층골재 재료의 비선형 이방성을 고려한 연결함수를 개발하였다. 기층이 비선형 이방성 거동으로 해석되어졌을 경우, 선형 등방성 거동으로 해석되어질 때 나타나는 기층 하부내의 인장력을 감소시켜 보다 현실적인 응력분포를 보이게 된다. 그러나 현재까지 개발된 연결함수들은 대부분 기층이 선형 등방성 거동으로 해석하여 개발된 것이므로, 비선형 이방성 거동을 근간으로 하는 연결함수의 개발이 현실적인 도로 설계를 위해 필요하다. 이 논문에서 개발된 연결함수를 이용하여 도로를 설계한 결과 AASHTO의 연결함수를 이용하여 설계했을 경우보다, 기층 두께가 25mm 감소되는 결과를 보였으며, 이는 AASHTO 도로 설계가 보수적인 설계라는 것을 입증하였다.

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