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Article: The FHWA test road: construction and instrumentation. (Federal Highway Administration)
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- Public Roads
- Article date:
- June 1, 1992
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1992 Superintendent Of Documents. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Introduction
Three valuable resources give the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) the capability to perform full-scale local tests on highway pavements. These resources are located at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) in McLean, Virginia:
* The Pavement Test Facility, which includes the fixed-speed rolling wheel Accelerated Loading Facility (ALF).(1,2) [1] This facility provides information on ultimate response (e.g., fatigue cracking and rutting) of flexible pavements in a matter of months; thus, problems and likely modes of failure can be identified long before they would occur on inservice highways.
* The Pavement ...
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