Analysis of Pavement Structures

<p><strong>Analysis of Pavement Structures</strong> brings together current research and existing knowledge on the analysis and design of pavements and introduces load and thermal stress analyses of asphalt and concrete pavement structures in a simple and step-by-step manner. For the second edition of this book a new chapter on numerical implementation (using FEM) of pavement analysis is added along with topics such as mechanical modeling of granular materials applications of convolution theorems in visco-elasticity visco-elastic Poisson’s ratio concepts of fracture mechanics in relation to fatigue of asphalt mix solution of semi-infinite and so forth. New solved examples and schematic diagrams are also added.</p><p><strong>Features:</strong></p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Presents a simple step-by-step approach for pavement analysis including systematic compilation of research work in the area</li> <p> </p> <li>Discusses further elaborations in terms of extended analytical formulations on some selected topics</li> <p> </p> <li>Includes new chapter on finite element analysis for pavement structures</li> <p> </p> <li>Contains more solved examples to understand the concepts better</li> <p> </p> <li>Explores primary application of pavement analysis in pavement thickness design</li> </ul><p>This book is aimed at graduate students structural mechanics researchers and senior undergraduate students in civil/pavement/highway/transport engineering.</p>