The pressuremeter: Application of pavement design
Abstract
Special pressuremeter, termed the Briaud pressuremeter, has been designed and built specifically for use in pavement engineering; also, a standard test procedure has been established. Both the special pressuremeter and test procedure are proposed as a basis for the traffic load design of flexible airport pavements. The pressuremeter probe is short and monocellular, and the test measures a cyclic modulus. The short probe allows tests to be performed every 0.3 m from the pavement or ground surface down to a depth of 1.8 m. The Briaud pressuremeter is portable and relatively inexpensive, the test is of short duration, and the results give a direct assessment of the condition of the pavement with depth.
- Publication:
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Ph.D. Thesis
- Pub Date:
- 1979
- Bibcode:
- 1979PhDT.......104B
- Keywords:
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- Airports;
- Pavements;
- Pressure Measurement;
- Runways;
- Elastic Properties;
- Structural Analysis;
- Structural Strain;
- Engineering (General)