PREDICTING REDUCTIONS IN SERVICE LIFE OF SURFACE-TREATED PAVEMENTS UNDER OIL FIELD TRAFFIC. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Pavement distress and performance equations for thin pavements are developed that relate pavement damage to traffic loading. These equations, developed by regression analysis, use pavement condition data collected during a seven-year period on thin pavements in Texas. Initial results demonstrate that these regression equations are better predictors of long-term performance than the AASHTO equation. A case study is presented to outline how these predictions were used to calculate reductions in pavement life and increases in life-cycle costs associated with the oil field development. This study predicted that the oil field development reduced the remaining life of a typical thin pavement from 46 to 16 months and increased the rehabilitation costs tenfold from 0. 50 to more than 5. 00/yd.

published proceedings

  • Transportation Research Record

author list (cited authors)

  • Scullion, T., Mason, J. M., & Lytton, R. L.

complete list of authors

  • Scullion, T||Mason, JM||Lytton, RL

publication date

  • January 1983