Comparative analysis of the response of the road structure with full/partial interlayer connection to traffic action

University Politehnica Timisoara, Department of Overland Communication Ways, Foundation and Cadastral Survey, 1A Ioan Curea, 300224, Timisoara, Romania

^* Corresponding author: adelin.stirb@upt.ro

Abstract

This article investigates the response of the road pavement of a road sector analysed to the action of traffic that was determined numerically by using two dedicated software. In this respect, the Romanian program CALDEROM 2000 (PD 177, 2001), respectively the French program for calculating the road pavements ALIZÉ-LCPC were used. Both programs use the Burminster elastic model for the analytical evaluation of stress states and specific deformations in multilayer road pavements. However, unlike the CALDEROM 2000 program, the ALIZÉ-LCPC software allows the user to define the interfaces between layers and switch loads from single axle to multiple loads, being a rational method, based on the determination of the resilient stresses and deformations in road structures by using the classical linear elastic multilayer model. The aim of this study was to determine whether the road pavement with deficiencies of adhesion between layers is able to take over the calculated traffic considered in the project, possibly the proportion of calculation traffic that can be taken over, which would allow an assessment of the capable operation life of the road pavement and, implicitly, of the possibility of its yielding before the end of the perspective period considered.