Nonlinear Mechanical Properties of Road Pavements: Geometric Symmetries Explain the Empirical Difference between Roads Built on Clay vs. Granular Soils

Authors

Afshin Gholamy, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

6-2019

Comments

Technical Report: UTEP-CS-19-56

Abstract

It is empirically known that roads built on clay soils have different nonlinear mechanical properties than roads built on granular soils (such as gravel or sand). In this paper, we show that this difficult-to-explain empirical fact can be naturally explained if we analyze the corresponding geometric symmetries.