Aims to enable engineers to design, specify and construct pavements with regard to available materials and their most economic use. US and European research for forecasting pavement life on the basis of deflections under standard wheel loads is included as well as more detailed comparisons between US and European specifications and design procedures. SI/Metric units are used throughout.

Paper 1 reports the test methods used and results obtained in evaluating the performance of 115 mi of flexible pavement. Paper 3 describes some aspects of theoretical and experimental work carried out in South Africa, over the past four years, in a study of 'chicken net' cracking of a road surfacing, and of the flexure induced in it by wheel loads. Paper 4 evaluates design procedures presently in use in South Dakota. Paper 5: A method was developed using the Benkelman beam to measure deflection of the individual layers of the pavement structure.

This textbook lays out the state of the art for modeling of asphalt concrete as the major structural component of flexible pavements. The text adopts a pedagogy in which a scientific approach, based on materials science and continuum mechanics, predicts the performance of any configuration of flexible roadways subjected to cyclic loadings. The authors incorporate state-of the-art computational mechanics to predict the evolution of material properties, stresses and strains, and roadway deterioration. Designed specifically for both students and practitioners, the book presents fundamentally complex concepts in a clear and concise way that aids the roadway design community to assimilate the tools for designing sustainable roadways using both traditional and innovative technologies.