Performance-Based Expressway Asphalt Pavement Structural Surface Layer Modulus Matching Mode Research

Abstract

The current asphalt pavement design theory is a traditional line elastic theory. The voltage resistance recovery modulus is used as the material stiffness parameter in the design, which does not fully consider the significant differences between the road material pull-up modulus. Therefore, to improve the overall stress of the pavement structure, this article started from the perspective of the volume of the structure layer, analyzed the development characteristics of reflected cracks in terms of the modular volume of different surface layers, and studied the size of each layer. It is proposed to match the asphalt pavement layer modulus with the crack development level. Based on structural computing and simulation, the application of different modular matching modes was verified, and support was provided for the design of the pavement structure. The results showed that with the increase of the surface modulus, the stress intensity factor determined by a semi-analytical method showed a nonlinear decrease trend, and the change of stress intensity factor was not obvious when the modulus was greater than 10,000; the surface layer compression mode ratio increased, and the vertical deformation of the road surface and the top surface pressure of the road base slowly increased, especially when the volume of the pressure pull-up ratio was greater than 1.5. In addition, the impact of the constraint between the surface layer on the vertical deformation of the road table decreased with the decrease in the volume of the surface layer.