Significance for Road Quality of Asphalt Pavement Indicators to Evaluate Violation Tolerance of Limit States
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https://doi.org/10.7250/bjrbe.2025-20.660Keywords:
asphalt pavement, criteria weights, expert evaluation, limit values, MCDM, permissible deviation, quality indices, quality assuranceAbstract
Pavement must have the characteristics that allow safe, fast, comfortable, economical and reliable vehicle traffic. The normative documents introduce limit values and permissible deviations of the controlled parameters of the road pavement, for which penalty deductions are levied if they are not satisfied or exceeded. The asphalt pavement installation rules for the ĮT ASFALTAS 08 contain 10 such indicators, whose relevance in respect of road quality is investigated in this paper. The relative weights of each indicator (defect) have been determined using assessments from 91 experts. The methods used in the study are rank correlation, ARTIW-L, ARTIW-N (Average Rank Transformation into Weight Linear and Non-linear), and DPW (Direct Percentage Weight). The expert team’s opinions are consistent because the empirical concordance coefficient value of 0.715 is 34.6 times higher than the minimum concordance coefficient value of 0.021. The most important indicators for the experts are the lower degree of compaction, the lower thickness of the layer, and the lower amount of binder. A pilot project dedicated to determining the required number of experts has shown that the number of experts in a team, exceeding 20, has almost no effect on the average of ranks and percentage weights of the criteria.
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