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The online version of the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide is available to anyone with Internet access who
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MANUAL
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CHAPTER TITLE

VIEW

Cover, Acknowledgements & Table of Contents for Introduction

& Design Inputs

Introduction
1. Background, Scope & Overview
1. Subgrade/Foundation Design Inputs
2. Material Characterization
Design
Inputs

2.

3. Environmental Effects
4. Traffic
5. Evaluation of Existing Pavements for Rehabilitation
Cover, Acknowledgements & Table of Contents for Design
Analysis & Low Volume Roads
1. Drainage
2. Shoulders

Design
Analysis

3.

3. Design of New & Reconstructed Flexible Pavements

4. Design of New & Reconstructed Rigid Pavements
5. Rehabilitation Strategies
6. AC Rehabilitation
7. PCC Rehabilitation Design

Low
Volume
Roads

4.

Appendices
(printing
allowed)

Low Volume Road Design

Glossary of Terms

Pavement Strategy Selection

Life Cycle Cost Analysis Guidelines

User's Guide Design Guide Software & Design

Examples

AA 1 Traffic Analysis Flowchart

2 Normalized Truck Class Distribution
3 Default Values for Truck Traffic Classification
4 Normalized Annual Axle Weight Distribution/Spectra
5 Normalized Axle Weight Statistics for Vehicle (5 & 9)

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6 Normalized Monthly Axle Load Spectra (5 Sites)

7 Default Normalized Axle Load Spectra
8 Normalized Axle Load Spectra (Level 1 Inputs)
9 Axle Load Spectra from other Roadways Used to
Determine the Regional Values ( Level 2 & 3 Inputs to the
Example Problem)
10 Regional Axle Load Spectra ( Level 2 & 3 Inputs to
the Example Problem)
11 Tabulation Summary of the Output From the Traffic
Module for the Example Problems

BB Design Reliability
CC 1 Correlation of CBR Values with Soil Index Properties
2 Estimating Original Air Voids in GPS-LTPP Sections
3 Updated Traffic Frequency Calculation for Asphalt
Layers
4 Development of a Revised Predictive Model for the
Dynamic (Complex) Modulus of Asphalt Mixtures

DD 1 Resilient Modulus as Function of Soil Moisture

Summary of Predictive Models
2 Resilient Modulus as Function of Soil Moisture
3 Selection of Resilient Moduli for Frozen/Thawed
Unbound Materials
4 Improvement of the Integrated Climatic Model for
Moisture Content Predictions

EE 1 Input Data for the Calibration & Validation for New

Constructed Flexible Sections
2 Input Data for the Calibration and Validation for
Rehabilitated Pavement Sections with HMA Overlays

FF Calibration Sections for Rigid Pavements

1 Introduction
2 Data Requirements for Model Development &
Calibration (New PCC and Rehabilitation with PCC)
3 General Information and Site/Project Identification
4 Distress
5 Traffic
6 Pavement Structure

GG Calibration of Permanent Deformation Models for Flexible

Pavements
Sensitivity Analysis for Permanent Deformation for
Flexible Pavements

HH Field Calibration of the Thermal Cracking Model

II

1 Calibration of Fatigue Cracking Models for Flexible

Pavements
2 Sensitivity Analysis for Asphalt Concrete Fatigue
Alligator Cracking
3 Sensitivity Analysis for Asphalt Concrete Fatigue
Longitudinal Surface Cracking

JJ

Tranverse Joint Faulting Model

KK Transverse Cracking of JPCP

LL Punchouts in CRCP
NN Calibration of Rehabilitation of Existing Pavements PCC

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OO 1 Background and Preliminary Smoothness Prediction

Models for AC
2 Revised Smoothness Prediction Models for AC
3 Addendum Estimation of Distress Quantities for
Smoothness Models for HMA-Surface Pavements

PP Smoothness Prediction for Rigid Pavements

QQ Structural Response Models for AC
RR Finite Element Procedures for Flexible Analysis
SS

Hydraulic Design, Maintenance & Construction Details of

Subsurface Drainage Systems

TT Drainage Requirement in Pavements (DRIP) User's Guide

Additional resources available on this site:

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, contact Dr. Ed Harrigan, Senior Program Officer

NCHRP
500 Fifth St. NW
Washington DC 20001

Phone 202 334-3232

Fax 202 334-2006
E-mail eharriga@nas.edu

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF SPONSORSHIP
This work was sponsored by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, in cooperation with the Federal Highway
Administration, and was conducted in the National Cooperative Highway Research Program, which is administered by the Transportation
Research Board of the National Research Council.

DISCLAIMER
This is the final draft as submitted by the research agency. The opinions and conclusions expressed or implied in the report are those of the
research agency. They are not necessarily those of the Transportation Research Board, the National Research Council, the Federal Highway
Administration, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, or the individual states participating in the National
Cooperative Highway Research Program.

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