Forewordthe purpose of this guide is to assist pavement designers and managers with the planning, design, construction, maintenance and rehabilitation of heavy duty flexible pavements. Although different nomenclatures are used by various jurisdictions and authorities, the following terms are used in this. The structural design of heavy duty pavements for port and other industries edition 4 published by interpave uk, this 90 page, 2007 edition of the british ports association manual is backed by almost 30 years of design experience, plus refined modeling, and provides an update to john knaptons second edition manual. Design considerations for interlocking concrete pavements. It emphasizes the aspects of concrete pavement technology that are different from procedures used to design and construct slabongrade such as streets, highways, and floors. Existing pavements at heathrow and gatwick airports were showing distress, and a need was felt to determine the causes. R116 applies to heavy duty dga used on highways receiving more than 600 heavy vehicles per lane per day. Intended use of pavement the designer should be made aware of the pavement operating requirements and state these in the documentation. It is possible that an asphalt mix can meet the requirements of this specification but not satisfy its intentions. Hicks department of civil engineering oregon state university corvallis, or 97331 paul curren pavement engineering inc. Lanham, maryland as an engineered system, asphalt pavements can be designed to carry any traffic load. Technical specification, mrts31 heavy duty asphalt. The heavy duty industrial pavement design guide has been developed for users of the hipave software.
Chapter 1 provides the data required to use the charts. The baa also felt a need to make modifications in pavement design procedures and criteria to handle the new generation aircraft. The manual has a 30year pedigree and is regarded as the benchmark by which other heavy duty pavement design. The design procedure is based upon the principle that pavements are designed to remain selviceable throughout the design life of the pavement. The fourth edition represents a significant step forward in the design of heavyduty pavements, i. The design of the whole pavement can be separated into design of the base and design of the foundation. It expands the number of design solutions as compared with the previous three editions by including a. Different design methods are discussed and compared for the pavement design of ports. Athwld, and onedirection cumulative esals for both flexible and rigid pavement design. Also, the designer will need to consider construction loading, and that the pavement may be subjected to semitrailers and forklift trucks during and after the.
Heavy duty streetpave 7 with 12 joint spacing medium duty optipave 5. Designing, building successful heavyduty asphalt pavements. That chart is presented in part 5 of this edition and may be used to proportion the base course of a heavy duty pavement. The parking area is the first part of a building complex seen by the user. However, to build the right pavement for heavy duty, highstress applications, such as ports and loading. In this research two different design methods are thoroughly analyzed, the british ports associations heavy duty pavements manual which is a chart based procedure and the hipave program which is an.
Heavy duty industrial pavement design guide pavement science. Apr 02, 2009 heavy duty pavements are pavements subjected to the extremely heavy wheel loads associated with freight handling vehicles in industrial facilities, such as container terminals and warehouses. Proper design and construction are absolutely necessary if the pavement is to perform. Pdf design of portand industrial pavements researchgate. The fourth edition represents a significant step forward in the design of heavy duty pavements, i. The third edition of the british ports association heavy duty pavement design manual was published in 1996 and for the first time, a radically new way of analysing pavements is incorporated. The charts provided in this document may be used to design all types of pavements serving ports and similar cargo handling facilities. Caltrans context for heavy duty pavement design old pavement concrete pavement, urban highvolume freeways, 30 50 years old 23 asphalt surfaced. Deterioration models for cement bound materials in structural design and evaluation of heavy duty pavements. Best practices for the design and construction of heavy duty. This means that when a design has been produced using the design chart, the designer can generate many alternative design solutions using different materials and so investigate a full range of solutions. Different pavement types use different types of joints and reinforcement to control the forces acting on the concrete pavement. The newer standard specifies 5inch of concrete with no subbase.
A request for a traffic study should include the following information. The structural design of heavy duty pavements icpi. Pdf concrete pavement design, construction, and performance. A typical interstate highway design for a heavy duty asphalt pavement consists of 200 to 300 mm of asphalt, a 100 mm thick layer of permeable granular material or a lightly bound open graded drainage asphalt 1. Therefore, the user may deal with all pavements likely to be encountered in heavyduty pavement design. This 2018 asphalt parking lot design guide has been prepared to assist readers in understanding all phases of asphalt parking lot design, including planning, construction and maintenance. Using traditional design methodologies, standard duty concrete lots required 7inch of concrete over a 6in subbase. Poor subgradesubbase preparation can not be overcome with thickness. The guide is a collaborative effort currently involving dr. Design of portand industrial pavements april 2014 project. Ray brown thirtyfour heavy duty asphalt pavements encompassing poor to excellent rutting performance were evaluated. Standard details for pavement savannah, ga official website. Heavy duty pavements centre for pavement engineering education. Hipave heavy industrial pavement design is for the mechanistic analysis and.
A proven semiempirical pavement design method has been used to assess the levels of stress at critical positions in the following manner. Chapter 2 shows how to estimate the load classification index lci for an item of plant. Best practices for the design and construction of heavy. Lundy department of civil engineering oregon state university.
Further summary statistics are provided for the percent trucks in terms of percent medium duty and heavy duty. Although the principles can be applied to various types of heavy duty pavements, this guide is primarily directed at port and container terminal pavements. Asphalt paving design guide asphalt pavement association of. The design exercise has been greatly simplified such that only one chart is now required. Traffic classifications are presented in chapter 3. Designing, building successful heavyduty asphalt pavements revised publication outlines best practices for design and construction of large stone mixes and heavyduty asphalt pavements for highstress applications. Design method able to account for local climate, materials, traffic, and to be continuously updated for new materials pavement designs and specifications to minimize thickness, speed construction time performance related specifications for asphalt materials continuous and full directional closures in urban areas. Heavy duty pavement design guide 1 road surface asphalt. Any concrete pavement, built of any thickness, will have problems on a poorly designed and constructed subgrade or subbase. Aug 21, 2019 as an engineered system, asphalt pavements can be designed to carry any traffic load. The objective was to identify the pavement properties materials, mixture design. Ray brown thirtyfour heavyduty asphalt pavements encompassing poor to excellent rutting performance were evaluated. Chapter 3 gives examples of how the charts can be used, not only to design a specific pavement but also to. Hipave a mechanistic design tool for heavyduty industrial.
The design of heavy duty asphalt pavements in australia is based on a mechanistic design method where a linear elastic model is used to determine critical horizontal strains at the bottom of bound layers usually the determining factor for pavement thickness and the vertical strain in the subgrade. Rms defines a heavy duty pavement in its agpt0210 supplement as one that will receive a design traffic loading of 10 7 esa. Conquering the challenges of heavy duty pavements in california. Design considerations for interlocking concrete pavements unilock specifications page 3 5. The pavement thicknesses given in the tables of this and the following chapter are based on the average daily traffic adt values over a 20year design period. In general, heavy duty pavements are similar to road and highway pavements but are required to service vehicles with much higher wheel loads and different performance requirements.
Heavy duty pavement design guide 1 free download as pdf file. Guide for design and construction of concrete parking lots. British ports association heavy duty pavement manual samt hipave som ar en australiensk modell och programvara. Jun 28, 2018 for heavy duty lots, the newer standard specifies four inches of asphalt over 12 inches of base vs. Leigh wardle of mincad systems, ian rickards pioneer road services pty ltd, melbourne, australia, john lancaster vicroads, australia and dr. Guide for the structural design of heavy duty pavements. Hipave heavy industrial pavement design is for the mechanistic analysis and design of flexible pavements subjected to the extremely heavy wheel loads.
Design manuals interlocking concrete pavement institute. Where an asphalt mix does not perform in the intended manner, the mix shall still be accepted provided the requirements stated in clauses 10, 11 and 12 have been met. As an engineered system, asphalt pavements can be designed to carry any traffic load. There are many design guides available for heavy duty pavements, some that are specified for ports for container handling like the hipave program and others for airports like the layer elastic design of flexible and rigid pavements in a pavement design for airfields from the united states army corps of engineering. Design and performance of heavy duty asphalt pavements. They explain how the third edition of the british ports association heavy duty pavement design manual can be used to design pavements surfaced with pavers. Rectilinear multistone design dualaxis engineering for heavyduty capability customizable surface texture and color page 810 12 mm joint width 7.
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