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U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration Long-Term Pavement Performance Program Rigid Pavement Design Software For the 1998 Supplement to the AASHTO Guide for Design of Pavement Structures, Part II: Rigid Pavement Design & Rigid Pavement Joint Long-Term Pavement Performance Program

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Long-Term Pavement Performance Program. Rigid Pavement Design Software. For the 1998 Supplement to the AASHTO Guide for Design of Pavement Structures, Part II: Rigid Pavement Design & Rigid Pavement Joint Design. PRESENTATION OBJECTIVES. What is the Rigid Pavement Design (RPD) Software? - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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U.S. Department of TransportationFederal Highway Administration

Long-Term Pavement Performance Program

Rigid Pavement Design Software

For the 1998 Supplement to the AASHTO Guide for Design of Pavement Structures, Part

II: Rigid Pavement Design &

Rigid Pavement Joint Design

Long-Term Pavement Performance Program

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PRESENTATION OBJECTIVES

• What is the Rigid Pavement Design (RPD) Software?

• Development of the RPD Software• RPD Software Features and Capabilities • How To Use the RPD Software • Who Should Use the RPD Software and

Why• How to Get the RPD Software

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Rigid Pavement Design Software: What It Is

• Microsoft Excel spreadsheet• Automates the design and analysis

procedures of the 1998 AASHTO Supplement

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Rigid Pavement Design Software: What It Is

• Spreadsheet has separate sheets:(a) for determining:

– accumulated traffic loadings– seasonally adjusted k values– adjusted k-value for fill and/or depth to rigid

layer(b) for performing

– corner break checks– faulting cracks

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PRESENTATION OBJECTIVES

• What is the Rigid Pavement Design (RPD) Software?

• Development of the RPD Software• RPD Software Features and Capabilities • How To Use the RPD Software • Who Should Use the RPD Software and

Why• How to Get the RPD Software

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AASHTO Design Guide: Evolution

• AASHO Road Test (ART), 1958-1960• AASHO Interim Guides, 1961 & 1962• Revised Interim Guide, 1972• Revised Chapter III (rigid), 1981• AASHTO Guide for the Design of Pavement

Structures, 1986• AASHTO Guide for the Design of Pavement

Structures, 1993 (overlays)• Supplement to the AASHTO Guide for the Design of

Pavement Structures, 1998 (rigid pavement design)

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AASHO Road Test (ART) Basis of AASHTO Design Guide

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TYPICAL JPCP PAVEMENT (designed according to 1972-1989 versions AASHTO design guides)