Development of a viscoelastic finite element tool for asphalt pavement low temperature cracking analysis

Road Materials and Pavement Design

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 833-858

  Hu, Sheng ^a   Zhou, Fujie ^a   Walubita, Lubinda F ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Asphalt concrete; Finite element; Low temperature cracking; Thermal stress; VE2D; Viscoelastic

Indexed keywords

INTERFACE ELEMENTS; LINEAR VISCOELASTIC MATERIAL; LOW TEMPERATURE CRACKING; PAVEMENT STRUCTURES; PAVEMENT TEMPERATURE; STRESS EVALUATIONS; VE2D; VISCOELASTIC;

ASPHALT CONCRETE; ASPHALT PAVEMENTS; CONCRETES; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); CRACKS; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; THERMAL STRESS; TOOLS; VISCOELASTICITY;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 75949129795     PISSN: 14680629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3166/rmpd.10.833-858     Document Type: Article

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