What structural number should be used

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A three-lane northbound section of interstate (with the design lane conservatively designed) has rigid pavement (PCC) and was designed with a 10-inch slab, 90% reliability, 700 lb/in² concrete modulus of rupture, 4.5 million lb/in2 modulus of elasticity, 3.0 load transfer coefficient, and an overall standard deviation of 0.35. The initial PSI is 4.6 and the TSI is 2.5. The CBR is 2 with a drainage coefficient of 1.0.

The road was designed exclusively for trucks that have one 24-kip tandem axle and one 12-kip single axle. It is known from weigh-in-motion scales that there have been 13 million 18-kip-equivalent single-axle loads in the entire northbound direction of this freeway so far.

If a section of flexible pavement is used to replace a section of the PCC that was removed for utility work, what structural number should be used so that the PCC and flexible pavements have the same life expectancy (the new life of the flexible pavement and the remaining life of the PCC)?

Reference no: EM131142411

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