Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Samuel Rodrigues Castro

Publications

• Research Article
  Statistical Analysis of Climatic Seasonality on the Paving Conditions of a Brazilian Highway
  Author(s): Saulo Rodrigues Castro, Samuel Rodrigues Castro, Paulo José Silva and Liséte Celina LangeSaulo Rodrigues Castro, Samuel Rodrigues Castro, Paulo José Silva and Liséte Celina Lange
  
  Road transport in Brazil is the main mean of people and cargo transportation and it becomes increasingly intense. Traffic loads and environmental factors are the primary causes of failures in asphalt paving, once the asphalt overlay is completely exposed to environmental hazards. The aims of the present work were to monitor and record occurrences involving paving failures in the highway granted to the Brazilian Public Private Partnership (PPP) that has the MG- 050 Highway as the main link connection between the midwest of Minas Gerais and São Paulo state, with 402 km long, serving as an integration axis of the economy developed in these regions. Data involving general events of paving failures and, more specifically, pits and potholes parameters were collected during the years 2010 and 2011. A statistical analysis was performed using non-parametric tests, evaluating seasonal cl.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-784X.1000133

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