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2025 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Evaluation of Fine-Grained Tropical Soils’ Resilient Behaviour for Pavement Design

Authors : Cláudio Rafael Cicuto Landim Alves Moreira, Antonio Carlos Rodrigues Guimarães, Filipe Almeida Corrêa Nascimento, Juliana Tanabe Assad dos Santos

Published in: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics (ICTG) 2024, Volume 4

Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore

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Abstract

Tropical soils have demonstrated good mechanical behaviour when applied to pavement layers, contrary to current standards. In Brazil, a mechanistic-empirical method for pavement design—the MeDiNa method—has been implemented. This method uses the concept of resilient modulus through a composite model to evaluate pavements. Thus, this article discusses the mechanical behaviour through resilient modulus analyses. Laboratory tests were performed on ten samples of tropical fine-grained lateritic soils from São Paulo (Brazil). The results were evaluated according to constitutive models to predict the performance of the resilient modulus. Additionally, the materials were evaluated for highway pavement design. Results showed that, even though the materials are fine-grained, the soils exhibited good resilient behaviour and were suitable for application in pavement layers, due to their lateritic classification.

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Metadata
Title
Evaluation of Fine-Grained Tropical Soils’ Resilient Behaviour for Pavement Design
Authors
Cláudio Rafael Cicuto Landim Alves Moreira
Antonio Carlos Rodrigues Guimarães
Filipe Almeida Corrêa Nascimento
Juliana Tanabe Assad dos Santos
Copyright Year
2025
Publisher
Springer Nature Singapore
Book
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics (ICTG) 2024, Volume 4

Print ISBN: 978-981-9782-24-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-9782-25-3

Copyright Year: 2025

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-8225-3_28