M. A. Beg

This dissertation describes a project-level pavement type selection procedure developed for use in roadway agencies and details the overall decision framework required for making dependable pavement type selection decisions. The developed pavement type selection procedure will e…

The problem of slabs resting on elastic soil is tackled by means of developing two non-linear finite element programs, WINKLER and PSEUDO-3D. The program WINKLER is based on the classical Winkler hypothesis whereas a three dimensional elastic analysis is used in PSEUDO-3D. A ten…