Shell pavement design method: Difference between revisions

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Originally published for highway design, it was expanded to include a procedure for airfields in the early 1970s.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Pavement Performance Models Volume 1|year=1976|author-first=Matthew W.|author-last=Witczak|publisher=U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station|page=68|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8WpIg36XHo0C}}</ref> New criteria were added in 1978.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Asphalts in Road Construction|year=2000|author-first=Robert N.|last=Hunter|publisher=Thomas Telford|isbn=978-0-7277-2780-0|page=168|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=77snb03IAV4C}}</ref>

The approach put forward in the '''Shellshell pavement design method''' formed the basis for most early mechanistic [[structural road design]] methods, while the [[AASHTO]] Mechanistic Empirical Design Guide (the 'MEPDG'),<ref>AASHTO, 2008, Mechanistic-empirical pavement design guide: A manual of practice</ref> first published in 2004, is, in effect, a modern successor.

== See also ==