Empirical-mechanistic method based stochastic modeling of fatigue damage to predict flexible pavement cracking for transportation infrastructure management

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 109-117

  Sun, Lu ^a   Hudson, W Ronald ^b   Zhang, Zhanming ^c  

^a The Catholic Univ of America ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Cracking; Damage; Density functions; Flexible pavements; Stochastic processes; Transportation management

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

FLEXIBLE PAVEMENTS;

PAVEMENTS;

CRACKING; DAMAGE; FATIGUE; PAVEMENT; PREDICTION;

EID: 0037335895     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(2003)129:2(109)     Document Type: Article

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