Author(s)

Fatou Samb¹, Meissa Fall¹, Yves Berthaud², Farid Bendboudjema³

¹Laboratoire de Mécanique et Modélisation, UFR Sciences de l’Ingénieur, Université de Thiès, Thiès, Sénégal.
²Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7190, d’Alembert, F-75005, Paris, France.
³Laboratoire de Mécanique et de Technologie, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Cachan, France.

Within the framework of a FEM of the nonlinear behavior of lateritic pavement of Senegal, the effect of truck overloading is studied to estimate its impact on the deformability of road pavement on compacted gravel lateritic soils. For that purpose, various loading conditions were tested to measure the impact on the critical response parameters of road pavement design. The implementation of the models was realized with Cast3M^©. This study allowed us to point out that the observed variations are linear and would help to plan in advance the impact of axle overloads for a better evaluation within the framework of the mechanistic (M. E.) design of pavements.

FEM, Axle Overload, Nonlinear Behavior, Gravel Lateritic Soil

Samb, F. , Fall, M. , Berthaud, Y. and Bendboudjema, F. (2015) Evaluation of the Impact of Truck Overloading on Flexible Compacted Gravel Lateritic Soil’s Pavements by FEM with Cast3M^©. Geomaterials, 5, 19-24. doi: 10.4236/gm.2015.51002.