Distresses in Flexible Pavements
Distresses in Flexible Pavements
Pavements
By Dr. Fazli Karim
[email protected]
Slippage Cracking
Description
Patching
The best remedy for slippage
cracking is to remove and
replace the effected area of
pavement with plant mixed
asphalt material.
A patch always represents a
point of weakness
Long-Lasting Patch?
04 Points to be remembered
Stepping to avoid
water penetration and
develop strong shear
key
Adequate tack coating
Surface seal at joint
Compaction
Specification limits for Patch/Overlay?
T(min)= 2.5(M.A.S)-Marshall
T(min)= 3(N.M.A.S)-
Superpave
T(max)=120 mm
If T= 25mm- No-due to heat
loss
Tack Coat applications rate
Asphalt Pre-Placement requirement
Cyclic loading
Freeze/Thaw cycles
Age Hardening asphalt
In most of cases, the
alligator cracking is caused
by the excessive deflection
of HMA over unstable
subgrade or any other
unstable lower layer of the
pavement.
Repair
Fatigue crack repair generally falls into one of
two categories:
Small, localized fatigue cracking- Patching
Large fatigue cracked areas- Functional or
structural overlay
Cures for fatigue cracking
Design for actual number of cyclic and heavy
loads.
Keep subgrade dry (low deflections).
Use thicker pavements.
Use non-moisture susceptible materials
Use paving materials that are resilient.
Adequate compaction during construction.
Potholes (chuck hole)
Pothole is a type of disruption
in the surface of a pavement
where a portion of the road
materials has broken away and
leaving a hole. Potholes usually
appear in the form of small
bowl-shaped depressions or
holes of various sizes in the
pavement surface resulting
from localized disintegration.
Possible Causes
Too little asphalt, too thin HMA, too many fines,
too few fines,
Poor drainage,
These chunks of pavements between fatigue
cracks are worked loose and may eventually be
picked out/dislodged of the surface by continued
wheel loads when the vehicles drive over them,
when water freezes it expands and thus puts
more stress on cracked pavement. so its severity
increases,
If a pothole fills with water, water washes away
loose particles from the walls of the potholes as
vehicles pass through it so its severity increases
Ravelling
Rutting or permanent
deformation is a load-related
depression found in the wheel
path area in longitudinal
direction of the road (along
the centre line of the road).
Depending on the failure
mode, rutting may be seen
simply as the consolidation of
pavement layers in the wheel
path
Round Aggregate have no
fracture face
Inadequate compaction during
construction phase
Too much binder in Asphalt
Mix
Poor drainage
Improper mix design
Improper selection of
bitumen-Soft binder
insufficient thickness design
Mode zero rutting
A longitudinal displacement
of a localized area of the
pavement surface. It is
generally caused by braking
or accelerating vehicles. It
may also have vertical
displacement
Too much binder
Soft Binder
Low vide content
DELAMINATION