Research Article

Experimental Study on Structural Mechanics of Asphalt Pavement by Digital Speckle Correlation Methods

Table 2

The form of structure collapse.

Mechanics indexMechanical symbolPavement structure failure mode

Vertical displacementVertical deformation
Transverse stressCracks in the bottom layer caused by cracking
Vertical stressThe bottom of a U-shaped crack
Transverse shear stressBoth sides of the U-shaped dehiscence
Vertical shear stressLateral slip, rutting, side cracking
Longitudinal shear stressLongitudinal slip