Integrating Locally-Calibrated Material Characterization Models for Design of Flexible Pavements: A Case Study
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Abstract
This paper investigates the integration of locally calibrated hot-mix asphalt (HMA) and unbound granular material characterization models into the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) to improve the design of flexible pavements. The MEPDG method, currently known as Pavement ME, recommends using locally calibrated material characterization models based on laboratory testing of local materials under specific environmental and traffic loading conditions. A case study using locally calibrated HMA, base, and subgrade material characterization models in Manitoba were compared to designs using default material values in Pavement ME. The impact of the integrated locally calibrated material models on the predicted pavement distresses for pavement sections with different traffic loadings and subgrade types were compared and presented. The results show that the locally calibrated materials model inputs produce lower pavement structural thicknesses compared to the default materials inputs. The effect of using calibrated inputs was more pronounced for higher traffic loadings. The results of the study demonstrate the importance of developing locally calibrated material models as a means of improving flexible pavement designs.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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