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Effect of Axle Spacing on Rigid Pavement Performance in Egypt

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Last updated: 25 Feb 2025

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Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Abstract

Many factors influence the rigid pavement's fatigue life. The most important of these factors are axle loading, the spacing between axles in the one-axle group, and the type of used tires. This study showed the influence of various rear axle spacings on the life of fatigue damage and identified the performance of the rigid pavement. The Finite Element software program DYNA-SLAB was used to calculate the stresses under the various axles. The fatigue life was assessed by the Mechanistic-Empirical Design Guide (M-EPDG) equation depending on the result of stresses from the DYNA-SLAB program, then the Axle Factor for each axle type was calculated. The results indicated that by increasing axle spacing in the one-axle group up to 2.20m for tandem and tridem axle, the Axle Factor decreased, giving the best performance of the rigid pavement. But for quad axles, if the spacing is more than 2 m, the Axle Factor increased and gives the worst performance of the rigid pavement.

DOI

10.21608/sisj.2025.407734

Keywords

Axle spacing, Rigid pavement, Fatigue, Load Factor, Axle Factor (AF)

Authors

First Name

Mahmoud

Last Name

Gobara

MiddleName

Ismail

Affiliation

Department of civil, Faculty of Engineering, Sinai University - Arish Branch, Arish, Egypt

Email

mahmoud.gobara@su.edu.eg

City

AlArish

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First Name

Abdallah

Last Name

Wahda

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Affiliation

Civil Engineering Department, Al Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.

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First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Zakaria

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Affiliation

Civil Engineering Department, Al Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.

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Volume

1

Article Issue

3

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53393

Issue Date

2025-01-01

Receive Date

2024-05-15

Publish Date

2025-01-28

Page Start

21

Page End

38

Print ISSN

3009-6324

Online ISSN

3009-7800

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https://sisj.journals.ekb.eg/article_407734.html

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407,734

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Original Article

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3,225

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Publication Title

Sinai International Scientific Journal

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https://sisj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Effect of Axle Spacing on Rigid Pavement Performance in Egypt

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Created At

01 Feb 2025