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Title:

User's Guide for TxCRCP-ME Design Software

Report No.:

Product 0-5832-P3 vol. 1-2

Authors:

by Soojun Ha [and four others]

Published:

2012

Lubbock, Texas

Texas Tech University. Center for Multidisciplinary Research in Transportation

Type:

Hard copy + Online document

1 volume (87 pages)

Online Access:

https://library.ctr.utexas.edu/hostedpdfs/texastec...

Access Note:

5.8 MB

Summary

This manual is organized to help users get accustomed to the operation modules of TxCRCP-ME, the structural design software for continuously reinforced concrete pavement (CRCP), which was developed under [this TxDOT research project]. An elaborate three-dimensional finite element analysis was conducted to identify the mechanisms of punchout distress in CRCP , and the critical component that may cause the punchout distress was mechanistically evaluated. A full factorial parametric study was performed for significant input variables to compile the database of the analysis results. A program was written using the 2007 version of Microsoft Excel to perform the analysis of the pavement system for given inputs in estimating the frequency of punchouts, the primary structural distress of CRCP. The conversion from mechanistic structural responses to pavement distress is achieved by a transfer function determined empirically, utilizing data collected from the TxDOT rigid pavement database project. The final results of the software are presented in the form of tables and charts. [Volume II, beginning on page 35] describes the architecture of the mechanistic-empirical CRCP design program.

Publ. Place

Lubbock, Texas

Contents

Section 1. Structural Design of CRCP --
Section 2. Spalling Evaluation of CRCP

Notes

"May 2012"--front cover
• "Report Date: February 2011"--page iv.

Study Number

TxDOT Research Project 0-5832

Study Title

Develop Mechanistic/Empirical Design for CRCP

Study Sponsor

Lead University

TechMRT

Other Titles

Volume I: User's Guide
Volume II: Software Architecture

Print Copy

Collection:

TxDOT/University Research

Call Number:

5832-P3

Copies Owned:

Reference Copy + Loan Copy

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Topics

Computer architecture
Computer program documentation
Continuously reinforced concrete pavements
Empirical methods
Mechanistic design
Mechanistic-empirical pavement design
Pavement design
Pavement distress
Pavements
Software

Proper Names

TxCRCP-ME (Computer program)

Related to

• TxDOT Research Project 0-6274 " Project Level Performance Database for Rigid Pavements in Texas, Phase II"

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