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Full-Scale Accelerated Pavement Testing and Instrumentation

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Road and airfield pavements play an important structural and functional role of ensuring safe, economic, and environmentally sustainable mobility of people and freight. Promoting circular economy in transportation infrastructure construction requires using innovative and non-traditional materials and technologies. However, validation is needed prior to their implementation. Hence, construction and monitoring of instrumented trial sections exposed to vehicular and environmental accelerated loading have been usually considered to assess their performance. Pavement embedded instruments allow monitoring the pavement health through measuring layer deformations, strains, stresses, and environmental conditions. Advantages and limitations of various instrument types are presented. In addition, two case studies are discussed.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Center of Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability (CERIS), the National Laboratory for Civil Engineering (LNEC), and the financial support of the R&D project “PTDC/ECM/100931/2008—SUPREMA—Sustainable Application of Construction and Demolition Recycled Materials (C&DRM) in Road Infrastructures” by FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology). The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) is acknowledged for funding the quarry by-products APT research as part of the Illinois Centre for Transportation R27-168 project. José Neves is grateful for the Foundation for Science and Technology’s support through funding FCT-UIDB/04625/2020 from the research unit CERIS.

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  1. CERIS, Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

    José Neves

  2. LNEC, Nacional Laboratory for Civil Engineering, Lisboa, Portugal

    Ana Cristina Freire

  3. Illinois Center for Transportation, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign, USA

    Issam Qamhia, Imad L. Al-Qadi & Erol Tutumluer

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Neves, J., Freire, A.C., Qamhia, I., Al-Qadi, I.L., Tutumluer, E. (2023). Full-Scale Accelerated Pavement Testing and Instrumentation. In: Chastre, C., Neves, J., Ribeiro, D., Neves, M.G., Faria, P. (eds) Advances on Testing and Experimentation in Civil Engineering. Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05875-2_7

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