Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
A dynamic boundary condition finite difference model for predicting pavement profile temperatures: Development and validation
Luleå University of Technology, Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Mining and Geotechnical Engineering.ORCID iD: 0009-0006-5705-5485
Luleå University of Technology, Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Mining and Geotechnical Engineering.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4460-9742
Luleå University of Technology, Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Mining and Geotechnical Engineering.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3031-816X
CSC – IT center for science LTD., Esbo, Finland.
Show others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: Transportation Engineering, E-ISSN 2666-691X, article id 100287Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The appearance of ground frost is of vital importance in construction and maintenance of roads in cold climates. Frost often causes ground heave and subsequent road damage, which must be taken into account in designing the road structure. Frost depth, pavement temperature, and freezing/thawing cycles are also important for estimating the frequency of road maintenance and treatment. Various analytical, numerical, and empirical models have been developed to estimate the surface temperature of the pavement and to model the heat flow in the underlying layers. The pavement surface experiences a variety of intricate nonlinear heat transfer mechanisms during winter, making it challenging to accurately model the surface boundary. Dynamic variation of parameters such as cloud cover and traffic density during the modeling period introduces additional complexity. To address this challenge, we have established an experimental setup in Luleå, Sweden, to measure pavement profile temperatures during the winter season. Additionally, we have developed a Finite Difference Model that utilizes local weather data including dynamic cloud cover, and which also takes traffic into account. The experimental and simulation findings demonstrate how the impact of surface temperature fluctuations diminishes and, more or less, vanishes for depths more than 55 [cm] below the pavement surface. The Finite Difference Model presented in this study exhibits the ability to forecast the pavement profile temperatures, including the surface temperature based on weather conditions, with acceptable precision for at least 3 days. As a consequence, a reasonable assessment of pavement layer conditions appears feasible based on local weather conditions, and the model can serve as a useful tool for planning road maintenance and construction in cold regions.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2024. article id 100287
Keywords [en]
Pavement profile temperatures, Surface boundary condition, Cloud factor, Traffic induced heat flux
National Category
Geotechnical Engineering Infrastructure Engineering
Research subject
Soil Mechanics; Experimental Mechanics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-110695DOI: 10.1016/j.treng.2024.100287Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85210027346OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-110695DiVA, id: diva2:1912494
Funder
Swedish Transport Administration
Note

Validerad;2024;Nivå 1;2024-11-27 (signyg);

Full text license: CC BY-NC-ND

Available from: 2024-11-12 Created: 2024-11-12 Last updated: 2024-12-12Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

fulltext(3533 kB)42 downloads
File information
File name FULLTEXT03.pdfFile size 3533 kBChecksum SHA-512
07cff6ea34d44a987e0499905887bfdede8a85093896a9ef991044d5a03ae4074a1d90c073b313b5cdfd49d3b5526c1bf53a4a93ee21dc6f9f8be2f913049032
Type fulltextMimetype application/pdf

Other links

Publisher's full textScopus

Authority records

Motamedi, ZahraBansal, TarunMattsson, HansCasselgren, Johan

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Motamedi, ZahraBansal, TarunMattsson, HansCasselgren, Johan
By organisation
Mining and Geotechnical EngineeringFluid and Experimental Mechanics
In the same journal
Transportation Engineering
Geotechnical EngineeringInfrastructure Engineering

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar
Total: 73 downloads
The number of downloads is the sum of all downloads of full texts. It may include eg previous versions that are now no longer available

doi
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
urn-nbn
Total: 188 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf