Top-down cracking (TDC) is a flexible pavement distress caused by a number of factors, including high contact stresses from truck tires, mix design characteristics, (e.g., binder type and aggregate gradation) and poor construction quality, (e.g., segregation and compaction methods). This paper presents the findings of a study seeking to quantify the effect of these factors on TDC. It consists of a laboratory co...
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