Research on Dynamic Response of Pavement under Moving Vehicle Loading Using Three Dimensional Finite Element Method

Abstract

To analyze the dynamic response of the pavement structure under moving vehicle loading is always a hot point in pavement engineering. In this paper, the moving vehicle has been simplified as spring-dashpot components and the pavement structure has also been discrete using three-dimension finite element model. Based on Newton iteration and central difference integration algorithm, the static and dynamic coupling reactions between pavement structure and vehicle have also been considered using finite element platform ABAQUS. The numerical results and analytic results can fit very well in static analysis, meanwhile the numerical results and experiment results can fit very well in dynamic analysis. Based on preceding verified numerical model, a few interesting phenomenon have been discovered. The pavement dynamic vertical displacement in upper layer is much higher than the situation in static analysis, because the vertical displacement is superimposed during the dynamic response analysis. Furthermore the vertical fluctuation of the vehicle's bar center exists even the vehicle moving in the initial even pavement, and the inertial forces is the most important reason to induce this behavior. In the last, this paper has proposed a more accurate, fast and concrete evidence to explain the reason that the dynamic response has obvious relationship with the diseases in pavement layer.