Impact of wide-based tires on the near-surface pavement stress states based on three-dimensional tire-pavement interaction model

Road Materials and Pavement Design

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 639-662

  Wang, Guangming ^a   Roque, Reynaldo ^b  

^a Quality Engineering Solutions Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

AC rutting; Asphalt concrete (AC); Contact stress; Tire; Top down cracking

Indexed keywords

EID: 81055130464     PISSN: 14680629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3166/rmpd.12.639-662     Document Type: Article

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