ABSTRACT
Road construction in permafrost areas requires careful consideration of the permafrost environment. Continuously reinforced concrete pavement (CRCP) is a high performance concrete pavement, which is considered as a potentially effective structure for roads in permafrost areas due to its low maintenance cost and high load carrying capacity. This study creates a model of CRCP with permafrost base structure to simulate and calculate the effect of melting and sinking of permafrost to the mechanical properties of the CRCP by finite element modeling (FEM) and Empirical formulas. The empirical equation calculations verify the correctness and accuracy of the model, and both of them also improve the CRCP structure has positive effect for use in permafrost regions.
