Physics – Computational Physics
Scientific paper
2010-05-11
RMPD Special Issue on Recent Advances in Numerical Simulation of Pavements (2010) 27 pages
Physics
Computational Physics
27 pages, status in Press
Scientific paper
As shown by strains measured on full scale experimental aircraft structures, traffic of slow-moving multiple loads leads to asymmetric transverse strains that can be higher than longitudinal strains at the bottom of asphalt pavement layers. To analyze this effect, a model and a software called ViscoRoute have been developed. In these tools, the structure is represented by a multilayered half-space, the thermo-viscoelastic behaviour of asphalt layers is accounted by the Huet-Sayegh rheological law and loads are assumed to move at constant speed. First, the paper presents a comparison of results obtained with ViscoRoute to results stemming from the specialized literature. For thick asphalt pavement and several configurations of moving loads, other ViscoRoute simulations confirm that it is necessary to incorporate viscoelastic effects in the modelling to well predict the pavement behaviour and to anticipate possible damages in the structure.
Chabot Armelle
Deloffre Lydie
Duhamel Denis
Olivier Chupin
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