1st Edition
A Design Guideline on the Use of Repeated Lightweight Deflectometer Test Data in Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design
1. Introduction 2. Traditional and Modern Practices in Road Material Property Assessment 3. Fundamental Theoretical Background 4. Determining the Stiffness Modulus of Road Materials Using Repeated Light-Weight Deflectometer Test 5. Application of Stiffness Moduli in Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design: Comparing RLT and RLWD Approaches 6. Back-Calculation of Pavement Layer Moduli with RLWD Measurements 7. Determining the In-Situ Permanent and Elastic Deformations of Road Materials Under Dynamic Loading Using RLWD Test 8. Determining RLWD Influence Zone and Refining Stress Distribution Model for RLWD Applications 9. Modeling Permanent Strain in Road Materials for Flexible Pavement Design Using RLWD Data
Biography
Dina K. Kuttah received her B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq, in 1997, 2000, and 2004, respectively. In 1997, she received the first national prize for outstanding achievement as a graduate student in Civil Engineering in Iraq. From 2000 to 2008, she served as an Assistant Lecturer and later as a Lecturer at the same university.
In 2008, Dina immigrated to Sweden with her family and began working as an External Lecturer at Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences, while learning Swedish. Since 2011, she has been with the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI), where she is currently a Senior Researcher in Pavement Technology.
