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Development of Dynamic Modulus Predictive Model Using Artificial Neural Network (ANN)

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2022 ASEE Gulf Southwest Annual Conference

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Prairie View, Texas

Publication Date

March 16, 2022

Start Date

March 16, 2022

End Date

March 18, 2022

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Diversity

Page Count

9

DOI

10.18260/1-2--39173

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https://peer.asee.org/39173

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Prashanta Kumar Acharjee University of Texas at Tyler

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Prashanta Kumar Acharjee is currently working as a graduate research assistant at the University of Texas at Tyler. After graduating from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology he is perusing his Masters at UT Tyler. His research interest is broadly in transportation engineering. Currently, he is working on applying machine learning in transportation engineering.

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Mena Souliman The University of Texas at Tyler

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Dr. Souliman is an Associate Professor in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Tyler. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. from Arizona State University in Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering focusing on Pavement Engineering. His fourteen years of experience are concentrated on pavement materials design, Fatigue Endurance Limit of Asphalt Mixtures, Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) mixtures, aggregate quality, field performance evaluation, maintenance and rehabilitation techniques, pavement management systems, cement treated bases, statistical analyses, modeling, and computer applications in civil engineering.

Dr. Souliman has participated in several state and national projects during his current employment at the University of Texas at Tyler including “Documenting the Impact of Aggregate Quality on Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) Performance, Texas Department of Transportation” for TxDOT, “Mechanistic and Economic Benefits of Fiber-Reinforced Overlay Asphalt Mixtures” for Forta Corporation as well as “Simplified Approach for Structural Evaluation of Flexible Pavements at the Network Level” which was funded by the US Department of Transportation via Tran-SET University Transportation Center.

Dr. Souliman has more than 100 technical publications, conference papers and reports in the field of pavement and aggregate testing, characterization, and field monitoring. He is the recipient of the lifetime International Road Federation Fellowship in 2009. In 2017, his research work on pavement engineering-related projects earned recognition as his college’s recipient of the Crystal Talon Award, sponsored by the Robert R. Muntz Library, recognizing outstanding scholarship and creativity of faculty from each college as determined by their dean. He also was awarded with the Crystal Quill award in 2018 by the University of Texas at Tyler for his research efforts and achievements.

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Abstract

In Mechanistic-empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG), dynamic modulus |E*| is identified as a key property for Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA). Determining |E*| in the laboratory requires several days of sophisticated testing procedures and expensive instruments. To bypass the long testing time, sophisticated testing procedure, and expense, several multivariate regression analysis-based models have been developed to predict the dynamic modulus from simpler materials properties and volumetrics. Witczak 1999 and Modified Witczak 2006 are the two most widely used dynamic modulus predictive models in the asphalt community. There are several other regression-based models that have been developed earlier such as the Hirsch Model, the Law of Mixtures Parallel Model, and the Resilient Modulus-based Model. Using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) a |E*| prediction model is developed in this study. To train the ANN model a dataset with 7400 data points is used, which is the same dataset used in the Modified Witczak 2006 model development. The overall R-value for the ANN model is very promising and is better than other regression-based models. An equation is also extracted from the ANN model. This equation can be used for quick prediction of |E*| without performing any sophisticated test.

Acharjee, P. K., & Souliman, M. (2022, March), Development of Dynamic Modulus Predictive Model Using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Gulf Southwest Annual Conference, Prairie View, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--39173

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