AMADEUS - Advanced Models for Analytical Design of European pavement Structures
Overview
Background & policy context:
Billions of Euros are spent every year on constructing and maintaining the European road network. In order to guarantee the safety and quality of this vast network over the long term and within acceptable budgetary limits, performance assessment tools need to be made available to decision-makers. Several advanced pavement deterioration and response models have been developed in recent years, but they describe only a limited number of failure phenomena and sometimes require large computational facilities. The need for a more comprehensive mechanistic pavement design model has been recognised by the European Commission and two actions involving co-operation between several European countries, COST 333 and AMADEUS, have been supported.
Objectives:
The main objectives of AMADEUS were:
- to evaluate existing, advanced, analytical pavement design models by comparing their predictions using standard inputs - looking at the ability of these models to deal with different materials, pavement constructions, climate and traffic characteristics;
- to issue recommendations and guidelines to promote the appropriate use of these design models;
- to set up the elements for a comprehensive design method integrating a number of distress phenomena with their evolution and mutual interactions.
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