Since pavement loads are caused by vehicle vibration, it is necessary to include the vehicle in the investigations of pavement loads.
A number of recent filed measurements and theoretical investigations showed that vehicle vibration-induced pavement loads are moving stochastic loads [4, 5, 6, 7, 8].
Two methods, i.e. computer simulation and field measurement, are used in this paper to investigate dynamic pavement loading (DPL) generated by vehicle pavement interaction.
A consequence of a high power in the damage law is that any fluctuation of pavement loading may cause a significant increase in the damage suffered by pavement structures.
This paper presents an optimum concept to design "road-friendly" vehicles with the recognition of pavement loads as a primary objective function of vehicle suspension design.
As a result, F T cycles with uncertainty do harm to pavement loading capacity, which should not be neglected in actual engineering.
The National Cooperative Highway Research Program defines "roughness" as "the deviations of a pavement surface from a true planar surface with characteristic dimensions that affect vehicle dynamics, ride quality, and dynamic pavement loads [21]." Factors contributing to roughness, in a general sense, include vertical alignment, cracks, joints, potholes, patches and other surface distresses.
Airbus measured pavement loads using a 540-tonne (595 short tons) ballasted test rig, designed to replicate the landing gear of the A380.
The developmental work has been based on a viscoelastic finite element method (FEM) dedicated to bituminous pavements subjected to multiple-axle traffic loads, through reliance on the following variables: pavement structure, load speed, load configuration, and bituminous material temperature.
This paper presents a systematic index approach to this issue that characterizes three aspects of traffic loading to pavement performance: volume, load, and damage.
