Determining the Performance of Reinforcement Systems Using Laboratory–Scale Accelerated Traffic Testing

At a time when the construction of new roads is increasingly taking a back seat to their preservation, the question of how to deal with maintenance measures, such as the reinforcement of pavements with asphalt reinforcements, is becoming more and more important. This applies in particular to the possible modelling of such asphalt reinforcements for dimensioning purposes. For the dimensioning of asphalt reinforcement grids, the estimation of their service life or the extension of the service life compared to a reference pavement without reinforcement is of particular importance. This paper shows how the service life of reinforced pavements can be estimated in the laboratory with the aid of accelerated traffic loading.