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When designing pavement thickness for flexible and rigid pavements, PO one of many considerations that should be used whats mean

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Question added by فؤاد أحمد حسين , مدير , حكومي
Date Posted: 2014/04/10
Rakan Hijazi
by Rakan Hijazi , Transportation Engineer , Seero Engineering Consulting

Po : initial serviceability index, Pt : terminal serviceability index ,PSI: present serviceability index ,PSI = Po - Pt

PSI is a mathmatical measurement for The PSR (Present serviceability rating) , it's related to the riding quality and Po value is taken immediately after the construction of the pavemnet, / usually a value of4.5 is taken for Po and (2-2.5) for Pt on major highways 

Naveen Nishchal Pandey
by Naveen Nishchal Pandey , Site Engineer - Civil , Glair Infrastructure Limited

PO is Initial serviceability index.

PO is considered to be the a present serviceability index (PSI) immediately after the pavement is open.

فؤاد أحمد حسين
by فؤاد أحمد حسين , مدير , حكومي

 

 

 

 

 

 Its mean that the Initial serviceability index (Po) – Po is considered to be that PSI immediately after the pavement is open. AASHTO values are4.5 for rigid pavement and4.2 for flexible pavement.

 

 

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