Remote Method for Predicting Damage to Cement Concrete Pavements

One of the important tasks of optimal design of road structures is the development of methods for predicting their service life, which allows evaluating objectively the state of road structures that are being designed or are already in operation with minimal labor and financial resources. The paper offers mathematical models that allow predicting various types of damage to cement concrete pavement during their service life. The models were developed by analyzing an array of damage data on the current network of roads with cement-concrete pavement in Russia, obtained using the Internet resource Google Maps. On the basis of the obtained data of fixing damages of cement-concrete pavements of roads, dependences of the intensity of damage formation of cement-concrete pavements over a long period of operation, comparable to the service life of cement-concrete pavements, were obtained. The character of development dynamics of damages of cement-concrete coatings of road pavements was revealed; the stages of their occurrence were established. The proposed models can be useful for design, construction and maintenance organizations and can be used for evaluating design decisions, for quantitative and objective evaluation of deviations in the quality of construction, as well as for timely planning of work based on constant monitoring of the existing road network.