Pavement ME Design
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.
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- AASHTO (2008). Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide: A Manual of Practice. American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. · URL
- Wang, D., Refsdal, G., & Creighton, A. (2010). Calibration of Pavement ME pavement performance equations at the project level. Transportation Research Record, 2153, 12-20. · URL
- American Institute of Asphalt Pavement Association (2015). Asphalt Pavement Design Guide. Report TIS-20(R18). · URL
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