Reliability methods applicable to mechanistic-empirical pavement design method

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2154, 2010, Pages 130-137

  Retherford, Jennifer ^a   McDonald, Mark ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

COMPONENT RELIABILITY; DESIGN METHOD; DESIGN PARAMETERS; INPUT VARIABLES; MECHANISTIC-EMPIRICAL DESIGNS; MECHANISTIC-EMPIRICAL PAVEMENT DESIGN; PAVEMENT DESIGN; PREDICTED PERFORMANCE; RELIABILITY METHODS; SYSTEM RELIABILITY;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 78651294016     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2154-13     Document Type: Article

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