Modeling of strain energy absorbers for rehabilitated cracked flexible pavements

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 131, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 653-661

  Elseifi, Mostafa A ^a   Al Qadi, Imad L ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Crack propagation; Cracking; Finite elements; Flexible pavements; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE STRESS; CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOSYNTHETIC MATERIALS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FLEXIBLE PAVEMENTS; GEOCOMPOSITE MEMBRANE; REHABILITATED PAVEMENTS;

PAVEMENTS;

PAVEMENT; REPAIR;

EID: 24944587652     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(2005)131:9(653)     Document Type: Article

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