ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: In the past decades, both the number of tire models and tire inflation pressure are increasing to transport oversized and overweight loads on highways. In-situ monitoring is an effective and reliable way to evaluate the influence of various complicated loading condition to the pavement. Since pavement instrumentation, experiment and following data analysis are expensive. Therefore, a study was made to find suitable locations of sensors in the pavement to evaluate the influence of various loading conditions. Based on the data analysis of the measured strain responses, the best sensing location is in the longitudinal plane at the bottom of pavements, because the responses were more stable and convergent, and the responses match with viscoelastic analysis the best.
