“…There is a significant amount of research showing that a more refined consideration of the weather factors can drastically improve the precision in the design of pavement (19)(20)(21)(22). Pavement design methods around the world are evolving and incorporating comprehensive procedures into mechanistic-empirical methodologies to deal with weather effects (23)(24)(25).…”
This study addressed the need for more detailed weather information in the context of pavement design with the Mechanistic–Empirical Pavement Design Guide from weather information available for Chile. An initial database was developed with the available hourly data in the country, and the sensitivity of distress predictions for Chilean weather was studied. Because of the limited availability of hourly climatic data, different methods were proposed for completing the missing data. As their inputs, the developed models used weather information that was more generally available. A sinusoidal–exponential model was used for the minimum and maximum daily temperature. An exponential model for hourly humidity based on maximum and minimum daily humidity was also used. Linear interpolation between the available hours with data for wind speed and cloud cover was sufficient to complete the hourly information for these variables. The precision of the distress predictions with these models proved to be accurate compared with the predictions with actual hourly weather data. The models are being successfully used to expand the number of available weather stations for pavement design in Chile. The models are also useful for validating the existing weather stations and detecting inaccuracies and errors in the recorded hourly data.
“…There is a significant amount of research showing that a more refined consideration of the weather factors can drastically improve the precision in the design of pavement (19)(20)(21)(22). Pavement design methods around the world are evolving and incorporating comprehensive procedures into mechanistic-empirical methodologies to deal with weather effects (23)(24)(25).…”
This study addressed the need for more detailed weather information in the context of pavement design with the Mechanistic–Empirical Pavement Design Guide from weather information available for Chile. An initial database was developed with the available hourly data in the country, and the sensitivity of distress predictions for Chilean weather was studied. Because of the limited availability of hourly climatic data, different methods were proposed for completing the missing data. As their inputs, the developed models used weather information that was more generally available. A sinusoidal–exponential model was used for the minimum and maximum daily temperature. An exponential model for hourly humidity based on maximum and minimum daily humidity was also used. Linear interpolation between the available hours with data for wind speed and cloud cover was sufficient to complete the hourly information for these variables. The precision of the distress predictions with these models proved to be accurate compared with the predictions with actual hourly weather data. The models are being successfully used to expand the number of available weather stations for pavement design in Chile. The models are also useful for validating the existing weather stations and detecting inaccuracies and errors in the recorded hourly data.
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