Rehabilitation Design Methodology for Haul Roads Associated with a Wind Farm Development in Southwestern Ontario
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper describes the impact of very heavy vehicles carrying wind turbine components on haul roads and the rehabilitation design methodology that was used for the haul roads located in the Town of Lakeshore in Southwestern Ontario. The original design and construction of these low-volume roads did not take in to consideration the large wheel loads that would be applied by the wind farm haul traffic. Therefore, the Town of Lakeshore commissioned a study to accomplish the following: establish baseline conditions of the roads along the proposed haul route; evaluate the pavement condition of the roads after the passage of the haul traffic; comparison of the baseline and post-haul pavement condition; and rehabilitation recommendations for the roads along the haul route. For the purpose of this investigation visual distresses and structural capacity were used to characterize the condition of the pavement. A pavement condition survey was done for the roads along the haul route both before and after the haul traffic. The pavement structural condition was evaluated by carrying out Falling Weight Deflectometer (FWD) load/deflection testing. Rehabilitation recommendations were provided for each section of roads along the haul route by combining visual distress observations and comparison of the baseline and post-haul pavement structural condition. The study found that although some of the haul roads experienced significant deterioration after the haul period, still others were found to have adequate bearing capacity and no significant development of visual distresses after the haul period had been completed. For the covering abstract of this conference see ITRD record number 201211RT334E.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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