Comparisons of Faulting-Based Pavement Performance Prediction Models

Weina Wang, Yu Qin*, Xiaofei Li, Di Wang, Huiqiang Chen

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Abstract

Faulting prediction is the core of concrete pavement maintenance and design. Highway agencies are always faced with the problem of lower accuracy for the prediction which causes costly maintenance. Although many researchers have developed some performance prediction models, the accuracy of prediction has remained a challenge. This paper reviews performance prediction models and JPCP faulting models that have been used in past research. Then three models including multivariate nonlinear regression (MNLR) model, artificial neural network (ANN) model, and Markov Chain (MC) model are tested and compared using a set of actual pavement survey data taken on interstate highway with varying design features, traffic, and climate data. It is found that MNLR model needs further recalibration, while the ANN model needs more data for training the network. MC model seems a good tool for pavement performance prediction when the data is limited, but it is based on visual inspections and not explicitly related to quantitative physical parameters. This paper then suggests that the further direction for developing the performance prediction model is incorporating the advantages and disadvantages of different models to obtain better accuracy.

Original languageEnglish
Article number6845215
JournalAdvances in Materials Science and Engineering
Volume2017
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
MoE publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

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