AASHTOWare Pavement ME User Manual

[Pages:55]AASHTOWare Pavement ME User

Manual

Virginia Department of Transportation Pavement Design and Evaluation Section

Central Office, Materials Division September, 2017

Questions or comments should be directed to Affan Habib, P.E., Pavement Program Manager Central Office, Materials Division, Central Office

1401 E. Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219 Ph: (804) 328-3129, email: affan.habib@vdot.

THE CURRENT VERSION OF THE USER MANUAL IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE. USERS ARE ADVISED TO VERIFY THE LATEST VERSION OF THE USER MANUAL BEFORE USE.

Contents

1 Introduction....................................................................................................................................... 7 2 Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design .......................................................................................... 8 3 Pavement ME Introduction ............................................................................................................... 9

3.1 Input Levels ............................................................................................................................. 10 3.2 Saving Designs in Pavement ME ............................................................................................. 11

4 Project Inputs .................................................................................................................................. 12 4.1 General Information ............................................................................................................... 12 4.2 Traffic Inputs ........................................................................................................................... 13

4.2.1 Site-Specific Traffic Inputs............................................................................................... 14 4.2.2 Statewide Average Traffic Inputs .................................................................................... 15 4.3 Climate Input........................................................................................................................... 15

4.3.1 Single Weather Station ................................................................................................... 16 4.3.2 Virtual Weather Station .................................................................................................. 17 4.3.3 Depth of Water Table...................................................................................................... 17 5 Pavement Layer Inputs.................................................................................................................... 18

5.1 Asphalt Material Inputs........................................................................................................... 18

5.1.1 Asphalt Open Graded Drainage Layer (OGDL) ................................................................ 19 5.2 Concrete Material Inputs ........................................................................................................ 20

5.3 Chemically Stabilized Base Inputs ........................................................................................... 22

5.3.1 Modelling of chemically stabilized layers under flexible pavement ............................... 22 5.3.2 Modelling of chemically stabilized layers under rigid pavement ................................... 22 5.4 Aggregate Base Inputs ............................................................................................................ 23

5.5 Subgrade Inputs ...................................................................................................................... 24 6 Calibration Factors .......................................................................................................................... 26

6.1 Changing Calibration Factors .................................................................................................. 26

7 Performing Analysis......................................................................................................................... 29 8 Reporting......................................................................................................................................... 34

9 References....................................................................................................................................... 35 Appendix A Traffic Inputs ............................................................................................................... 36

Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D

Asphalt Material Inputs .............................................................................................. 38 Concrete Material Inputs ............................................................................................ 40 Chemically Stabilized Layers input as Non-Stabilized/Subgrade Layers ..................... 41

Appendix E Chemically Stabilized Layer Inputs under rigid layer .................................................. 44

Appendix F Appendix G Appendix H

Aggregate Base Material Inputs.................................................................................. 45 Subgrade Material Correlation and Inputs ................................................................. 46 Pavement Design with Pavement ME Walkthrough................................................... 47

List of Figures

Figure 2-1: Pavement ME Design Process .............................................................................................. 8 Figure 3-1: Screenshot of Pavement ME with Labels Added ................................................................. 9 Figure 4-1: Weather Station Locations in Virginia................................................................................ 17 Figure 5-1: Screenshot of Resilient Modulus Input .............................................................................. 25 Figure 6-1: Calibration Factors in Explorer Pane .................................................................................. 28 Figure 7-1: Analyzing Distress output graph at different time frame .................................................. 30 Figure 7-2: Analyzing Distress output using Excel Report .................................................................... 30 Figure H-1: Pavement ME Login Screen ............................................................................................... 47 Figure H-2: Main Project Window ....................................................................................................... 48 Figure H-3: Traffic Input Window ........................................................................................................ 49 Figure H-4: Axle Load Spectra Import from Database.......................................................................... 50 Figure H-5: Axle Load Spectra from XML file........................................................................................ 50 Figure H-6: Single Weather Station Selection ...................................................................................... 51 Figure H-7: Virtual Weather Station Selection ..................................................................................... 51 Figure H-8: Add Layer Window............................................................................................................. 52 Figure H-9: Importing Properties from Database................................................................................. 52 Figure H-10: Progress Window............................................................................................................. 53 Figure H-11: Pavement ME Analysis Output Summary ........................................................................ 54 Figure H-12: Sensitivity Analysis option ............................................................................................... 55

List of Tables

Table 4-1: Pavement ME Reliability Inputs* ........................................................................................ 12 Table 4-2: Flexible Pavement Performance Limits ............................................................................... 13 Table 4-3: CRCP Pavement Performance Limits ................................................................................... 13 Table 4-4: JPCP Pavement Performance Limits.................................................................................... 13 Table 4-5: Traffic Input Parameters..................................................................................................... 14 Table 4-6: Lane Distribution Factors .................................................................................................... 14 Table 4-7: Climate Input Parameters ................................................................................................... 15 Table 4-8: Virginia weather stations included in Pavement ME .......................................................... 16 Table 5-1: Asphalt Material Input Parameters .................................................................................... 18 Table 5-2: Asphalt Concrete Layer Properties Input Parameters........................................................ 19 Table 5-3: Asphalt Mix Catalog............................................................................................................. 19 Table 5-4: Concrete Material Input Parameters.................................................................................. 20 Table 5-5. CRCP Design Parameters .................................................................................................... 21 Table 5-6. JPCP Design Parameters ..................................................................................................... 21 Table 5-7: Chemically Stabilized (as high quality aggregate) layers input file names .......................... 22 Table 5-8. Chemically Stabilized Layer Input Parameters under rigid pavement ................................ 23 Table 5-9. Aggregate Base Input Parameters ...................................................................................... 23 Table 5-10. Subgrade Input Parameters.............................................................................................. 24 Table 5-11. Resilient Modulus Inputs for Subgrade Fill Material ........................................................ 25 Table 6-1: VDOT Calibration factors ..................................................................................................... 26 Table 7-1: Guidance for Modifying HMA Trial Designs to Satisfy Performance Criteria (from AASHTO Mechanistic ? Empirical Pavement Design Guide, Manual of Practice 2015)...................................... 31 Table 7-2: Guidance on Modifying JPCP Designs to Satisfy Performance Criteria (from AASHTO Mechanistic ? Empirical Pavement Design Guide, Manual of Practice 2015)...................................... 32

Table 7-3: Guidance on Modifying CRCP Designs to Satisfy Performance Criteria (from AASHTO Mechanistic ? Empirical Pavement Design Guide, Manual of Practice 2015)...................................... 33 Table A-1: Vehicle Class Distribution Averages .................................................................................... 36 Table A-2: Example Calculating Vehicle Class Distribution from VDOT Traffic Data from data........... 36 Table A-3: Statewide Axles Per Truck Inputs-....................................................................................... 37 Table B-1: Average Asphalt Mix Properties for Level 1 Input.............................................................. 38 Table C-1: Typical Concrete Mix Properties for VDOT......................................................................... 40 Table D-1: Estimated properties of CTA as non-stabilized layer .......................................................... 41 Table D-2: Estimated properties of VDOT Lime/ Cement stabilized soil as subgrade layer................. 42 Table D-3: Estimated properties of FDR as non-stabilized layer .......................................................... 43 Table E-1: Typical Cement Treated Aggregate (CTA) properties as chemically stabilized layer .......... 44 Table E-2: Cement Stabilized FDR estimated properties as chemically stabilized layer ...................... 44 Table F-1: Rock Group .......................................................................................................................... 45 Table F-2: Typical Input Parameters for VDOT 21A/21B Aggregate Base Materials............................ 45 Table G-1: Correlation between Unconfined Compression Strength to Resilient Modulus for FineGrained Soils......................................................................................................................................... 46 Table G-2: Typical Soil Properties for Virginia Fine-Grained Soils ........................................................ 46

1 Introduction This document provides the information that is used by VDOT Staff, Consultants, and Contractors to

design and analyze new, reconstruction, and lane widening projects in primary interstate roadways by using AASHTOWare Pavement ME version 2.2.6 software. High volume secondary roadways (Average Daily Traffic (ADT) > 10,000) maybe designed using AASHTOWare Pavement ME version 2.2.6 at the discretion of the District Materials Engineer. This document is also intended to help provide guidance for designers using the AASHTOWare Pavement ME software. However, this document does not replace the need for in-depth understanding and training on the mechanistic empirical pavement design process and Pavement ME software. More detailed information on Pavement ME is available through the AASHTO document titled `MEPDG: A Manual of Practice' (1). The help document provided with the software provides more information on using the software and describing some inputs (2).

Pavement Designers outside VDOT can obtain the required information about AASHTOWare Pavement ME software from AASHTO website using the following link;

Virginia specific material, traffic, and climate input files can be downloaded by using the following link; under Pavement Design & Evaluation Documents. The downloaded files must be unzipped and saved in user's computer. Consultants and Contractors who are designing VDOT projects must use AASHTOWare Pavement ME version 2.2.6 must use Virginia specific input values in their design as described in this user manual.

The respective District Materials Engineer has the ultimate authority of resolving any design related issue with MEPDG. Given the Department is still on the learning curve with MEPDG and some features of MEPDG are still being evaluated by AASHTO, the District Materials Engineer can adjust the design using MEPDG in consultation with CO Materials Pavement Design and Evaluation section.

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2 Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Mechanistic-empirical (ME) pavement design utilizes theoretical pavement modeling and historical

pavement performance data to predict pavement responses to a trial pavement structure rather than calculating a required layer thickness. Designers first consider site conditions, such as traffic, climate, subgrade and/or existing pavement conditions, in creating a trial design and the software is used to predict the pavement distresses and smoothness. A trial design can be obtained from the AASHTO 1993 empirical design process or pavement management system for a similar/near-by project or from local knowledge/experience. The pavement responses are evaluated against performance criteria and reliability values provided in Section 4.1. If the design does not meet the required performance criteria, it should be revised and the process repeated until the criteria are met.

Figure 2-1 shows a flow chart for the ME design process. When creating a pavement design, these steps should be followed. Input parameters and instructions for each step are provided throughout this manual.

Figure 2-1: Pavement ME Design Process

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