Civil Engineering Association

Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide - A Manual of Practice

This manual provides the highway community with a state-of-the-practice analysis tool for evaluating pavement structures using mechanistic-empirical principles, using project specific traffic, climate, and materials data for estimating damage accumulation over a specified pavement service life. This manual is applicable to designs for new, reconstructed, and rehabilitated flexible, rigid, and semi-rigid pavements. Performance and distress predictions models are used to aid the pavement designer in determining the desired pavement section.
Content:
Front Matter
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Preface
• Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Referenced Documents and Standards
3. Significance and Use of the MEPDG
4. Terminology and Definition of Terms
5. Performance Indicator Prediction Methodologies
6. Hierarchical Input Levels - Deciding on the Input Level
7. General Project Information
8. Selecting Design Criteria and Reliability Level
9. Determining Site Conditions and Factors
10. Pavement Evaluation for Rehabilitation Design
11. Determination of Material Properties for New Paving Materials
12. Pavement Design Strategies
13. Rehabilitation Design Strategies
14. Interpretation and Analysis of the Trial Design
Appendix: Getting Started with the MEPDG
Abbreviations and Terms
Index


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This manual describes a pavement design methodology, termed mechanistic-empirical (M-E) pavement design, that represents a major change from the pavement design methods in practice today. Based on engineering mechanics that have been validated through extensive road test performance data, the manual presents information necessary for pavement design engineers to begin using use the MEPDG design and analysis method. The manual references AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design™, M-E Pavement design software, commercially available through AASHTOWare, AASHTO's software development program. AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design has been revised from the software described in the previous edition of this manual, based upon evaluations performed by state departments of transportation and others in the community of practice.