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Title: Assessment of Temperature Fluctuations in Asphalt Pavements due to Theraml Environmental Conditions using a Two-Dimentional, Transient Finite Difference Approach.
Principal Investigator's Name(s): Cenk Yavuzturk and Khaled Ksaibati
Program Overview: The project deals with the development
of a finite difference model to assess temperature fluctuations in asphalt
pavements as a function of thermal environmental conditions and pavement
thermal properties and geometry. The goal of the project is to predict
pavement temperatures at different depths and horizontal locations as
accurate knowledge of pavement temperatures is crucial in selecting proper
asphalt grades in various pavement lifts. The project also studies the
impact of primary thermal environmental and pavement geometric parameters
on predicted pavement temperature responses. The analyses are conducted
considering weather and pavement data provided by WYDOT among others and
performs what-if analyses considering highway segments located in Cheyenne,
WY.