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Abstract for presentation (Poster or Podium) with a Paper in the Conference Proceedings

Highway Pavements

Case of study: Behavior of Brazilian New Method of Pavement Desing on testing segments in Brazil

Monday, June 17, 2024
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM ET
Room: Galleria
Abstract:

Roads and highways are the main Brazilian transportation modal and have a huge importance to guarantee the flow of goods and people.

Brazil has 1,720,700 km of roads, of which 212,491 km are paved. Brazilian roads represent 61% of the products transportation and 95% of passenger transportation. In this sense, it is fundamental the correct pavement design to guarantee a long useful life of Brazilian roads.

In some new roads designed and built by DNIT (National Department of Transport Infrastructure – Brazil), experimental road testing segment has been executed to evaluate its performance, and aiming the calibration of this new pavement design method.

This new method is named ‘MeDiNa’ is a software that provides the mechanistic-empirical pavement design that works with multiple pavement layers analysis.

The objective of this study is to present the comparison between the Brazilian New Method of Pavement Desing and others pavement design methods and softwares,  on testing segments that have being executed in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul-Brazil by DNIT.

The experimental testing segment is 500 meters long, and  it will be able to analyze the pavement performance comparing the behavior estimated by the Brazilian New Method of Pavement Desing,  others pavement design methods, and the behavior checked on the field.

 

Learning Objectives:

Attendees can expect to learn the following from this session:
  • Upon completion, participant will be able to present the comparison between Pavement Desing methods
  • Upon completion, participant will be able to share all the methodology used in the study
  • Upon completion, participant will be able to share all the work experience as a civil engineer that work with pavement design in a different country.