Backcalculation of pavement layer moduli from falling weight deflectometer data using an artificial neural network

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 57-66

  Sharma, Sunil ^a,b   Das, Animesh ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b Sunlife India Service Centre   (India)

Author keywords

Asphalt pavement; Backcalculation; Falling weight deflectometer; Reliability; Remaining life

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; ELASTIC MODULI; NEURAL NETWORKS; RELIABILITY;

ASPHALT PAVEMENT; BACKCALCULATION; FALLING WEIGHT DEFLECTOMETER;

PAVEMENTS;

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; ELASTIC MODULI; NEURAL NETWORKS; PAVEMENTS; RELIABILITY;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ASPHALT; ELASTIC MODULUS; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; PAVEMENT; WEIGHT;

EID: 41849095180     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/L07-083     Document Type: Article

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