Reliability considerations of bituminous pavement design by mechanistic-empirical approach

International Journal of Pavement Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 19-31

  Maji, Avijit ^a,b   Das, Animesh ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b Center of Excellence for Tactical and Advanced Communications Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Mechanistic empirical; Pavement design; Probability distribution; Reliability

Indexed keywords

BITUMINOUS PAVING MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RELIABILITY;

BITUMINOUS PAVEMENTS; MECHANISTIC-EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PAVEMENT DESIGNS; VARIABILITIES;

PAVEMENTS;

EID: 36949023559     PISSN: 10298436     EISSN: 1477268X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10298430600997240     Document Type: Article

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