A review of top-down cracking in asphalt pavements: Causes, models, experimental tools and future challenges

In the last decades, a new type of distress has been observed more and more frequently on asphalt pavements. This distress, ascribable to fatigue failure, has been named top-down cracking (TDC) because it consists in longitudinal cracks that initiate on the pavement surface and then propagate downwa...

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Main Authors: Francesco Canestrari, Lorenzo Paolo Ingrassia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2020-10-01
Series:Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English ed. Online)
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095756420301240