Pavement engineering

This includes streets and highways and involves knowledge of soils, hydraulics, and material properties.

Another example is the use of a falling weight deflectometer (FWD) to non-destructively test existing pavements.

Calculation of pavement layer strengths can be performed from the resulting deflection data.

The two methods - empirical or mechanistic is used to determine pavement layer thicknesses.

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