Ingår i: EPAM 2012: Malmö, Sweden, 5–7 September: 4th European pavement and asset management conference

Aim of the research is to develop an empirical-analytical procedure to determine the remaining life of flexible pavements using both experimental and analytical information.The later is derived from mechanistic analysis of various flexible pavements considering different traffic loads, climatic influences, material characteristics and other relevant parameters. Experimental information is obtained from special laboratory tests (stiffness and fatigue tests on the asphalt base layer). These tests were carried out on cores taken from different highway sections all over Germany. The analysis was done using pavement design software called PaDesTo that is based on the multi-layer theory. For the remaining life analysis the highway was split into sections with similar pavement characteristics. In this paper, some experimental evidence is provided that indicates that the approach used by the authors can realistically predict the remaining life of pavements