Top-down cracking in Italian motorway pavements: A case study

Top-down cracking (TDC) is a distress affecting asphalt pavements and consists of longitudinal cracks that initiate on the pavement surface and propagate downwards. In general, TDC is more critical in the case of thick pavements with open-graded friction course (OGFC), which are the typical characte...

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Main Authors: Lorenzo Paolo Ingrassia, Paolo Spinelli, Giulio Paoloni, Francesco Canestrari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-12-01
Series:Case Studies in Construction Materials
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214509520301145