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NCHRP Report 646: Validating the Fatigue Endurance Limit for Hot Mix Asphalt (2010)
National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)

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Anderson, R Michael, Carpenter, Samuel H, Daniel, Jo Sias, Prowell, Brian D, Shen, Shihui, Bhattacharjee, Sudip, Swamy, Aravind Krishna, Brown, E Ray, Von Quintus, Harold, Maghsoodloo, Saeed, Transportation Research Board. "Evaluation of Endurance Limit." NCHRP Report 646: Validating the Fatigue Endurance Limit for Hot Mix Asphalt. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2010.

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Front Matter (R1-R11)
Summary (1-4)
Introduction (5-5)
Scope (6-6)
Arguments for the Existence of the Endurance Limit (7-8)
Strategies to Produce Long-Life Pavements (9-11)
Laboratory Fatigue Tests and Analysis Methods (12-12)
Modeling Fatigue and Relationship to Field Performance (13-14)
Introduction (15-15)
Materials (16-16)
Test Methods (17-19)
Extrapolation Methods to Predict Fatigue Life (20-31)
Existence of the Endurance Limit (32-40)
Estimate of Precision of Beam Fatigue Tests (41-41)
Indirect Tensile Strength as a Surrogate for Endurance Limit Determination (42-43)
Dynamic Modulus and Phase Angle Master Curves (44-48)
Damage Characteristic Curve (49-52)
Evaluation of Endurance Limit (53-58)
Including the Endurance Limit Design Premise into Mechanistic-Empirical-Based Pavement Design Procedures (59-61)
Defining the Endurance Limit - A Survivability Analysis (62-65)
Updated Survivability Analysis Using LTPP Data (66-72)
Estimate of Shift Factors between Laboratory Tests and Field Performance (73-82)
Sensitivity of Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Methods to the Endurance Limit (83-87)
Considerations for Incorporating the Endurance Limit into M-E Design Procedures (88-90)
Recommendations (91-92)
References (93-95)
Appendix A - Proposed Standard Practice for Predicting the Endurance Limit of Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) for Long-Life Pavement Design (96-104)
Appendix B - Proposed Standard Practice for Predicting the Endurance Limit of Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) by Pseudo Strain Approach (105-110)
Appendix C - Proposed Standard Practice for Extrapolating Long-Life Beam Fatigue Tests Using the Ratio of Dissipated Energy Change (RDEC) (111-115)
Appendix D - NCHRP 9-38 Beam Fatigue (116-120)
Appendix E - Construction of Characteristic Curve (121-125)
Appendix F - NCHRP 9-38 Beam Fatigue Round Robin (126-127)
Abbreviations used without definitions in TRB publications (128-128)