Validation of Pavement Performance Models for the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide

Principal Investigator:

Halil Ceylan, hceylan@iastate.edu (other projects)

Co-Principal Investigator:

• Omar Smadi, smadi@iastate.edu (other projects)
• Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan, rangan@iastate.edu (other projects)

Project Status: In Progress

Start Date: 05/01/2006
End Date: 04/30/2007


Research Objective: The objective of this research is to determine whether the performance models used in the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide provide a reasonable prediction of actual performance, and if the desired accuracy or correspondence exists between predicted and monitored performance for Iowa conditions.

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