Monitoring the mechanical and structural behavior of the pavement structure using electronic sensors

Abstract

Over the last decade, pavement instrumentation has become an important tool for monitoring the performance of pavement structures and materials under real climatic and traffic conditions. Stress, strain transducers, loop profilers, temperature, and moisture sensors could be reasonably used for sophisticated analysis of pavement performance. Commonly, such research projects involve only few pavement structures under accelerated loading tests. The unique experimental road section was constructed in 2007 in Lithuania. It consists of 27 different flexible pavement structures and all necessary electronic sensors. This road is affected by real climatic conditions and high-intensity heavy vehicle traffic. The aim of such research is to continuously monitor performance of different pavement structures and to elaborate on the most suitable and economically effective pavement structures.