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Jean BERTHIER: Engineer General of Ponts et Chaussées
INTRODUCTION
The purpose of pavement design is to determine the nature and thickness of the layers that make up the pavement, so that it can withstand the multiple stresses to which it will be subjected during its "service life", or rather, in today's terminology, its "design life".
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Bibliography
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Standards and norms
- Chaussées, terrassements, terminologie, partie 1, terminologie relative au calcul de dimensionnement des chaussées. - NF P 98-080-1 - 1992
- Chaussées, terrassements, dimensionnement des chaussées routières, éléments à prendre en compte pour le calcul de dimensionnement. - NF P 98-086 - 1992
- Dimensionnement des chaussées routières, détermination des trafics routiers pour le dimensionnement des structures...
Regulations
Article R 312-5 of the French Highway Code, June 2001.
Article R 312-6 of the French Highway Code.
Directive 85/3/EEC of December 1984 relating to the weights, dimensions and certain other technical characteristics of certain road vehicles (updated by Directive 96/53/EC of July 25, 1996 laying down for certain road vehicles circulating within the Community the maximum authorized...
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