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    This document contains 5 problems and questions related to pavement design and analysis. It asks about calculating contact areas for a dual tandem axle load, why limiting shear failure design is rarely used today, the mechanistic-empirical design method and possibility of a wholly mechanistic method, why flexible pavements are built in layers with better materials on top, and why rigid pavements pump more than flexible pavements and under what conditions flexible pavements would pump.

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    This document contains 5 problems and questions related to pavement design and analysis. It asks about calculating contact areas for a dual tandem axle load, why limiting shear failure design is rarely used today, the mechanistic-empirical design method and possibility of a wholly mechanistic method, why flexible pavements are built in layers with better materials on top, and why rigid pavements pump more than flexible pavements and under what conditions flexible pavements would pump.

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    This document contains 5 problems and questions related to pavement design and analysis. It asks about calculating contact areas for a dual tandem axle load, why limiting shear failure design is rarely used today, the mechanistic-empirical design method and possibility of a wholly mechanistic method, why flexible pavements are built in layers with better materials on top, and why rigid pavements pump more than flexible pavements and under what conditions flexible pavements would pump.

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    This document contains 5 problems and questions related to pavement design and analysis. It asks about calculating contact areas for a dual tandem axle load, why limiting shear failure design is rarely used today, the mechanistic-empirical design method and possibility of a wholly mechanistic method, why flexible pavements are built in layers with better materials on top, and why rigid pavements pump more than flexible pavements and under what conditions flexible pavements would pump.

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    1. Sketch and show the dimensions of the most realistic contact areas for a dual tandem axle
    load of 40,000 lb with a tire pressure of 100 psi. If the contact areas are assumed as rectangles,
    what should be the dimension of the rectangular area?

    2. Why is the limiting shear failure method of flexible pavement design rarely in use today?
    Under what situations could the method be used?

    3. What is meant by the mechanistic-empirical method of pavement design? Is it possible to
    develop a wholly mechanistic method of pavement design? Why?

    4. Why are flexible pavements generally built in layers with better materials on top?

    5. Explain why rigid pavements pump whereas very few flexible pavements do so. Under
    what conditions would a flexible pavement result in pumping? On which pavement does
    pumping occur more frequently, airport or highway? Why?

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