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Title: Assessment of Thermal Stresses in Asphalt Pavement due to Environmental Conditions.
Principal Investigator's Name(s): Cenk Yavuzturk and Khaled Ksaibati
Program Overview: The project deals with developing two-dimensional time-dependent thermal stress maps of multi-layered asphaltic pavements based on temperature distributions due to thermal environmental conditions including diurnal and seasonal freeze-thaw cycles. The analyses are conducted considering data for Cheyenne, WY. Thermal stress maps are developed for a variety of typical pavement configurations and pavement materials. The thermal interaction between pavement materials are studied.
Objective of the Project: The goal of the project is to develop a tool to accurately predict pavement locations that are most susceptible for large thermal stresses.