Prediction of airport flexible pavement critical responses from non-destructive test data using ANN-based structural models

Journal of Applied Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1547-1552

  Gopalakrishnan, Kasthurirangan ^a  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Airport flexible pavement; Artificial Neural Networks (ANN); Critical pavement responses; Heavy Weight Deflectometer (HWD)

Indexed keywords

AIRFIELD PAVEMENT; AIRPORT FLEXIBLE PAVEMENTS; HEAVY WEIGHT DEFLECTOMETERS; NON-DESTRUCTIVE TEST; PAVEMENT RESPONSE; PREDICTION ACCURACY; STRUCTURAL MODELING; STRUCTURAL MODELS;

AIRPORTS; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FORECASTING; NEURAL NETWORKS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

PAVEMENTS;

EID: 33750502596     PISSN: 18125654     EISSN: 18125662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2006.1547.1552     Document Type: Article

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