I must be grasping at straws here. I need to save my client some money by using as much overlay as possible, over a car park. The existing pavement has an area where both concrete and asphalt exists (used to be an underground LPG tank there under a huge concrete slab. They excavated the LPG tank...
This is somewhat related to another thread of mine. Basically I want a truck to climb a 1 in 3 incline. How can I determine whether it has enough power to do that or not?
I don't even know where to start. I'm a civil engineer, and an undergraduate at that. This is such a special project that...
so I'm raising the surface by 0 - 200mm over a large area. Using all asphalt is too expensive, do you think I can just chip off a layer of existing asphalt, throw some crushed rocks on top, then put new asphalt down? I'm asking because I seem to recall that crushed rock only goes beneath asphalt...
I'm a civil engineer, but this issue may be relevant to automotive engineering, so I want to hear your opinion on it.
I have to design a road for a large semi-trailer. In my simulations, the back end of the semi-trailer always snags the ground in sags.
There are 4 rear axles and no front...
