Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Σχεδιασμός Οδοστρωμάτων με τη μέθοδο ME	Συμπίεση Terzaghi	Υδρογράφημα Μονάδας
Πεδίο	Πολιτική Μηχανική	Πολιτική Μηχανική	Πολιτική Μηχανική
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	2008	1943	1932
Δημιουργός	AASHTO (American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials)	Karl Terzaghi	L. K. Sherman
Τύπος	Performance-prediction model for asphalt pavement design	Diffusion equation for pore pressure dissipation and soil settlement	Linear transformation from rainfall to streamflow
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	AASHTO (2008). Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide: A Manual of Practice. American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.	Terzaghi, K. (1943). Theoretical Soil Mechanics. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN: 0-471-85305-1	Sherman, L. K. (1932). Streamflow from rainfall by the unit graph method. Engineering News-Record, 108(14), 501-505.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	MEPDG, Pavement design, Fatigue and rutting	Primary consolidation, Soil settlement, Effective stress	UH, Rainfall-runoff, Hydrograph synthesis
Συναφείς	3	3	3
Σύνοψη	The Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG or Pavement ME) is a modern method for designing asphalt pavements that predicts performance (rutting, cracking) using mechanistic stress analysis combined with empirical distress models. Developed by AASHTO in 2008 as a successor to the 1993 AASHTO Empirical Guide, this approach provides better accuracy and enables climate-based, site-specific design.	Terzaghi consolidation theory describes how water-saturated clay soils compress over time as excess pore water pressure dissipates and effective stress increases. Formulated by Karl Terzaghi in 1943, this foundational theory enables prediction of settlement rates for foundations on compressible soils, a critical design concern in geotechnical engineering.	The unit hydrograph (UH) is a linear transformation that converts rainfall excess into streamflow for a watershed. Introduced by Sherman in 1932, the UH assumes that rainfall-runoff response is linear and time-invariant, enabling synthesis of flood hydrographs from design storms for dam spillway design and flood risk assessment.