Experimental and Multi-Scale Damage and Healing Characterization of Asphaltic Road Materials: Experimental and Computational Studies

道路交通基础设施对加拿大经济起着直接的支撑作用。 不幸的是，加拿大大部分道路基础设施的状况恶化，给现在和将来的所有加拿大人造成了重大负担。 过去，道路行业主要依赖于基于经验的工程方法来进行道路结构设计和材料选择。 因为它们是基于历史的，这些传统的经验道路工程方法是有限的，因为它们不能明确量化不同交通、创新道路材料、创新道路结构设计和替代道路资产管理政策的道路现场性能。 该提案的重点是开发基于机械的道路工程和资产管理系统，以改进加拿大道路的设计和材料规格。 本研究提出将多尺度损伤修复力学纳入现有的非线性正交各向异性连续体道路工程设计和材料设计系统。 在拟议的研究中，一个多尺度的道路建模框架，预测道路材料的损坏和愈合在加拿大的条件下，利用加拿大光源将验证各种加拿大沥青混凝土路面的损坏和愈合模型的调查。 这项研究将探索不同的沥青路面系统的基础上，实验室表征和评价的领域性能测试部分。 本研究还将评估与改进的全寿命道路性能预测相关的整体经济学，以帮助加拿大在基于科学而不是依赖传统资本预算分配方法的优化资本投资框架中，基于生命周期性能预测优化基础设施投资。 这项研究是唯一能够采用加拿大光源的预测和验证加拿大沥青路面内的微裂缝和塑性流动，并将提供基于科学的路面性能预测不同的加拿大路面和现场状态条件。

Road transportation infrastructure plays a direct supportive role to the Canadian economy. Unfortunately, the deteriorated condition state of much of Canada's road infrastructure has created a significant liability for all Canadians, present and future. In the past, the road industry has predominantly relied on empirical based engineering methods for the road structural design and materials selection. Because they are historic based, these traditional empirical road engineering methods are limited because they cannot explicitly quantify road field performance across different traffic, innovative road materials, innovative road structural designs, and alternative road asset management policies. This proposal focuses on the development of mechanistic based road engineering and asset management systems for improved design and materials specifications for Canadian roads. This research proposes to incorporate multi-scale damage-healing mechanics into the existing non-linear-orthotropic continuum road engineering design and materials design systems. In the proposed research, a multi-scale road modeling framework that predicts the damage and healing of road materials in Canadian conditions utilizing the Canadian Light Source will validate damage and healing models of various Canadian asphaltic concrete pavements investigated. This research will explore diverse aspaltic road systems based on laboratory characterization and evaluation of field performance test sections. This research will also evaluate the holistic economics associated with improved whole life road performance prediction to help Canada optimize infrastructure investment based on life cycle performance prediction in optimized capital investment framework that is based on science instead of relying on traditional capital budget allocation approaches. This research is uniquely capable to employ the Canadian Light Source for the prediction and validation of microfracture and plasticity flow within Canadian asphaltic pavements and will provide scientific based pavement performance predictions of diverse Canadian pavements and field state conditions.