摘要: |
Though designers and contractors have been using industrial byproducts and geosynthetics for several years, WisDOT engineers have lacked numeric values for how much each material may improve a given subgrade. Perhaps even more significant, engineers also possess little quantifiable data on how these improved subgrades may affect the performance and durability of the pavements they support. If granular materials, industrial byproducts and geosynthetics were found to work in quantifiable and predictable ways, engineers could routinely design subgrades and even pavements that account for the benefits of these materials. Engineers know these materials can increase subgrade and pavement durability and performance, as well as reduce the expense and resource depletion entailed in using aggregate, but need to find methods to quantify these benefits. |