Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper presents a simple yet efficient approach for the reliability-based design of flexible pavements, based on the concept of quantile-values. The reliability-based approaches currently adopted in the pavement design guides are simplified techniques, based on an overall reliability factor. On the other hand, simulation-based probabilistic techniques, widely discussed in literature, can be computationally expensive and tedious to implement. The ‘Simplified Effective Random Dimension Quantile Value Method’ (Simplified ERD-QVM), adopted in this study, presents an elegant technique to bridge the gap between the precision of simulation-based probabilistic techniques and the efficiency of design guide approaches. The accuracy of this technique is verified through Monte Carlo Simulations for different pavement design scenarios. The main advantages of the method are (i) the significant savings in computational times for reliability-based design of flexible pavements without the use of surrogate models (ii) the use of simple techniques already familiar to practitioners who adopt the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide and (iii) it is a comprehensive reliability analysis approach that addresses the drawbacks of the currently used approaches, while capturing the effect of both design parameter and model uncertainty. The methodology for integrating the Simplified ERD-QVM with the existing flexible pavement design codes is also presented.
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