Question: ( 3 0 points ) A flexible pavement was designed to have a 6 - inch sand - mix asphaltic surface, 8 - inch soil

(30 points) A flexible pavement was designed to have a 6-inch sand-mix asphaltic surface, 8-inch soil-cement base and a 21-inch crushed-stone subbase (all drainage coefficients are 1.0). The pavement was designed for 100012-kip single axles and 160034-kip tandem axles per day in the design direction. Traffic volume increases 2% every year. The reliability used was 90%, the overall standard deviation was 0.35, the initial PSI was 4.7, the TSI was 2.5 and the soil resilient modulus was 2600 psi. If the road has three lanes in the design direction (and was conservatively designed with a PDL 0.65), for how many years was the pavement designed for?
( 3 0 points ) A flexible pavement was designed

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