The paper presents results of sensitivity analysis to crack propagation of a pavement bituminous layered structure using the Finite Element Method (FEM) and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). The performed preliminary study determined stresses and displacements in the pavement layer system. The pavement structure consisting of asphalt layers, a base layer, subbase and subgrade layers was analyze...

---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract Over the past few decades Road infrastructure in India is developing at a quick pace. A decent pavement is required for the safe, comfortable and prudent development of traffic. The thickness of road relies on geotechnical properties of subgrade so...

A full-scale reinforced subgrade for railways (RSR) was constructed, and repetitive static load tests were performed to analyze the deformation characteristics of rigid walls with short reinforcements railway subgrades that require strict displacement restrictions. Load test results obtained four sections, in which reinforcement arrangement (vertical spacing length) wall-reinforcement connectio...