ViscoRoute
Viscoroute 2.0: a tool for the simulation of moving load effects on asphalt pavement. As shown by strains measured on full scale experimental aircraft structures, traffic of slow-moving multiple loads leads to asymmetric transverse strains that can be higher than longitudinal strains at the bottom of asphalt pavement layers. To analyze this effect, a model and a software called ViscoRoute have been developed. In these tools, the structure is represented by a multilayered half-space, the thermo-viscoelastic behaviour of asphalt layers is accounted by the Huet-Sayegh rheological law and loads are assumed to move at constant speed. First, the paper presents a comparison of results obtained with ViscoRoute to results stemming from the specialized literature. For thick asphalt pavement and several configurations of moving loads, other ViscoRoute simulations confirm that it is necessary to incorporate viscoelastic effects in the modelling to well predict the pavement behaviour and to anticipate possible damages in the structure.
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Sorted by year (- Asmus Skar; Sebastian Andersen: ALVA: An adaptive MATLAB package for layered viscoelastic analysis (2020) not zbMATH
- Chupin, O.; Chabot, A.; Piau, J.-M.; Duhamel, D.: Influence of sliding interfaces on the response of a layered viscoelastic medium under a moving load (2010)