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Publication Number: FHWA-HRT-15-026 Date: February 2015

Publication Number: FHWA-HRT-15-026
Date: February 2015

Evaluation of LTPP Climatic Data for Use in Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) Calibration and Other Pavement Analysis

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Publication No. FHWA-HRT-15-026

FHWA Contact: Larry Wiser, HRDI-30, (202) 493–3079.

This document is a technical summary of the Federal Highway Administration report, Evaluation of LTPP Climatic Data for Use in Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) Calibration and Other Pavement Analysis (FHWA-HRT-15-019).

OBJECTIVE

This TechBrief describes evaluating the use of the Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) product as an alternative climatic data source for the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) and other transportation infrastructure applications. The research was conducted from 2011 to 2014.

FHWA-HRT-15-026 PDF Cover

Page Owner: Office of Research, Development, and Technology, Office of Infrastructure, RDT

Topics: research, infrastructure, pavements and materials
Keywords: research, infrastructure, pavements and materials, Built-in curl, LTPP, Hilbert-Huang, empirical mode decomposition, intrinsic mode function
TRT Terms: research, facilities, transportation, highway facilities, roads, parts of roads, pavements
Scheduled Update: Archive - No Update needed

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