Assessment of AASHTO Load-Spreading Method for Buried Culverts and Proposed Improvement

AASHTO’s ad hoc method (AAM) for predicting free-field soil stress under a rectangular loading area is a simple and very useful tool for the analysis of buried culverts subject to vehicular wheel loads. AAM assumes the surface load spreads with soil depth into an ever-increasing rectangular area who...

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Published inTransportation research record Vol. 2675; no. 11; pp. 877 - 887
Main Author Katona, Michael G.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.11.2021
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