Thesis
Temperature predictions in pervious concrete pavement during cold months
Washington State University
Master of Science (MS), Washington State University
05/2016
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/100745
Abstract
Pervious concrete pavement (PCP) is gaining popularity for many municipal and other applications in cold-climate regions. As part of winter maintenance operations to prevent pedestrians' slipping accidents on sidewalks deicers are typically applied to the pavement surface. The exposure to deicing chemicals can cause deterioration of the pavement structure, therefore it is critical to apply deicers at the proper surface temperature. In this study, thermal conductivity was characterized in the laboratory for pervious concrete as a function of porosity. A temperature prediction model was developed for an instrumented PCP sidewalk to predict the surface temperature of PCP during the winter season using Enhanced Integrated Climatic Model (EICM) finite-difference computer software. The objective of the study was to predict the winter days that the PCP surface may have potential to freeze based on local ambient conditions. The model can be used as a groundwork for the development of winter maintenance operation procedures for PCP in the future.
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- Title
- Temperature predictions in pervious concrete pavement during cold months
- Creators
- Benjamin Nantasai
- Contributors
- Somayeh Nassiri (Degree Supervisor)LIV HASELBACH (Committee Member)Xianming Shi (Committee Member) - Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department ofJames Powell (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Science (MS), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; [Pullman, Washington] :
- Number of pages
- 111
- Identifiers
- 99900525107701842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis