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    Pavement Assignment 1

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    The document provides details of a pavement design project including: 1) The pavement is designed to last 10 years with an initial PSI of 4.2 and final PSI of 2.5 on a subgrade with a resilient modulus of 15,000 lb/in2 and 95% reliability. 2) The daily traffic consists of 30,000 cars/pickups/vans and 1000 single unit trucks plus 350 tractor-trailer trucks with specified axle loads. 3) Part b asks to reduce the daily traffic levels to extend the pavement life to 20 years while maintaining maximum traffic volume.

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    The document provides details of a pavement design project including: 1) The pavement is designed to last 10 years with an initial PSI of 4.2 and final PSI of 2.5 on a subgrade with a resilient modulus of 15,000 lb/in2 and 95% reliability. 2) The daily traffic consists of 30,000 cars/pickups/vans and 1000 single unit trucks plus 350 tractor-trailer trucks with specified axle loads. 3) Part b asks to reduce the daily traffic levels to extend the pavement life to 20 years while maintaining maximum traffic volume.

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    The document provides details of a pavement design project including: 1) The pavement is designed to last 10 years with an initial PSI of 4.2 and final PSI of 2.5 on a subgrade with a resilient modulus of 15,000 lb/in2 and 95% reliability. 2) The daily traffic consists of 30,000 cars/pickups/vans and 1000 single unit trucks plus 350 tractor-trailer trucks with specified axle loads. 3) Part b asks to reduce the daily traffic levels to extend the pavement life to 20 years while maintaining maximum traffic volume.

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    Pavement Assignment 1

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    potty man
    The document provides details of a pavement design project including: 1) The pavement is designed to last 10 years with an initial PSI of 4.2 and final PSI of 2.5 on a subgrade with a resilient modulus of 15,000 lb/in2 and 95% reliability. 2) The daily traffic consists of 30,000 cars/pickups/vans and 1000 single unit trucks plus 350 tractor-trailer trucks with specified axle loads. 3) Part b asks to reduce the daily traffic levels to extend the pavement life to 20 years while maintaining maximum traffic volume.

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    ASSIGNMENT 1

    a) A pavement is to be designed to last 10 years. The initial PSI is 4.2 and the TSI (the final PSI) is
    determined to be 2.5. The subgrade has a soil resilient modulus of 15,000 lb/in2. Reliability is 95% with
    an overall standard deviation of 0.4. For design, the daily car, pickup truck, and light van traffic is 30,000,
    and the daily truck traffic consists of 1000 passes of single-unit trucks with two single axles and 350
    passes of tractor semi-trailer trucks with single, tandem, and triple axles. The axle weights are

    cars, pickups, light vans = two 2000-lb single axles

    single-unit truck = 7000-lb steering, single axle

    = 20,000-lb drive, single axle

    tractor semi-trailer truck = 12,000-lb steering, single axle

    = 15,000-lb drive, tandem axle

    = 45,000-lb trailer, triple axle

    M2 and M3 are equal to 1.0 for the materials in the pavement structure. Four inches of hot-mix asphalt
    (HMA) is to be used as the wearing surface and 10 inches of crushed stone as the subbase. Determine
    the thickness required for the base if soil cement is the material to be used.

    b) The designed pavement above has been constructed, but now the client wants it to be serviceable
    for 20 years, instead of 10 years. You are tasked with reducing the daily traffic in such way that the
    required life extension is met while serving the maximum traffic volume.

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