Design of flexible pavement layers

Abstract

Several research projects realised by the Chair of Pavement Engineering at the Dresden University of Technology aim at the development of an analytical design method to predict the stress and strain behaviour of a pavement or to calculate the remaining life cycle of the pavement structure. The developed dimensioning model is based on the fundamental idea of freely choosing any possible construction (flexible pavement). Furthermore, the dimensioning model aims at the optimisation of the pavement construction considering traffic loading and weather-induced factors. Using different materials, the particular thickness of each layer is optimised on the basis of failure hypotheses.