ABSTRACT

The cyclic load triaxial test apparatus makes it possible to simulate in the laboratory the behaviour of unbound materials used in base and subbase layers of road pavements under moving loads. Work by Corté (1994), Paute et al. (1994), Balay et al. (1998), and Correia (2004) illustrated the use of this test to determine the resilient and permanent strains of asdug granular material while investigating the influence of parameters such as water content, dry density, or the method of compaction.