Pavement Performance Monitoring

If your firm has ever worked on a large-scale construction project in Australia, there is a chance that you have had to coordinate pavement performance monitoring before. Pavement Performance monitoring is a series of pavement testing activities that are carried out prior to completing a project, which shall be conducted again on the anniversary of completion over several years.

Performance monitoring can involve the repeated testing of a pavement’s structural (deflection and curvature), functional (roughness, rutting, texture depth, patching, cracking) and skid resistance properties. All measures can be done to meet state and project guidelines or targets.

Such requirements are often extensive and usually there are only a couple of weeks between completing a section of road, and the due date of the pavement performance report. PMS’ ARAN is the ideal equipment used to complete the functional testing component for such projects. As a combined laser/visual measurement device, it can measure roughness, rutting, texture, patching and cracking assessments in a single pass per lane. This simplifies the collection process and eliminates the previous limitation of having several vehicles and crews to only one piece of equipment.

Furthermore, as the ARAN is able to take both longitudinal and transverse profile measurements every 2m, it meets or surpasses all national testing requirements which requires the measurement of rutting and texture through straight edges and sand circles.

Finally, the biggest advantage of ARAN is that all this can be achieved without traffic control!

Figure 1 – ARAN laser/visual system can take both longitudinal and transverse profile measurements every 2 meters.

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