Threshold-Based Maintenance Optimization for Pavement Infrastructure Using Hybrid Dynamic Modeling

Abstract:

This study adopts hybrid dynamic modeling (HDM) to simulate and optimize threshold-based pavement maintenance. To evaluate the quality of the optimized threshold-based maintenance, benchmark plans are also generated by relaxing the threshold-based strategies. The proposed methodology is demonstrated with a network of 20 highway pavements. Based on the numerical results, some guidelines for selecting maintenance strategies in different scenarios such as budget availability are proposed.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 723)
• Pages: 931-939
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.723.931
• Online since: August 2013
• Authors: James C. Chu, Ming Hsien Li, Shih Chi Chen
• Keywords: Hybrid Dynamic Modeling, Maintenance Threshold, Optimization, Pavement Management

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