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路面设计外文翻译---柔性路面设计 英文翻译 Flexible pavement design Generally speaking,pavements(and bases) may be divided into two broad classifications or tipes:rigid and flexible. As commonly used in the United States,the term ’’rigid pavement〃is applied to wearing surfaces constructed of Portland-cement concrete. A pavement constructed of concrete is assumed to possess considerable flexural strength that will permit it to act as a beam and allow it to bridge over minor irregularities which may occor in the base or subgrade on which it rests;hence the term rigid.Similarity,a concrete base that supports a brick or block layer might be described as rigid”. All other types of pavement have traditionally been classed as flexible.A commonly used definition is that a flexible pavement is a structure that maintains contact with and distributes loads to the subgrade and depends on aggregate interlock,particlefriction,and cohesion for stability.Thus,the classical flexible pavement include primarily those pavement that are composed of a series of granular layers topped by a relatively thin high-quality bituminous wearing surface .Typically,the highest-quatily materials are at or near the surface.lt should be pointed out that certain pavementsthat have an asphalt surface may behave more like the classical 〃rigid〃pavement,for example, pavement that have very thick asphalt surface or that have base courses composed of aggregate treated with asphalt,cement, or lime-fly ash. However,for convenience of presentation,these pavements will be considered to be in the flexible class. The structure of flexible pavement is composed of a “wearing surface, base, subbase(not always used), and subgrade . The wearing surface and the base often comprise two or more layers that are somewhat different in composition and that are put down in separate construction operations.On many heavy-duty pavements,asubbase of select material is often placed between the base and subgrade.the wearing surface may range in thickne