Article: The FHWA test road: construction and instrumentation. (Federal Highway Administration)

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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