Layers In Pavement Construction
A flexible pavement structure is typically composed of several layers of material each of which receives the loads from the above layer, spreads them out, then passes them on to the layer below. Thus, the further down in the pavement structure a particular layer is, the less load (in terms of force per area) it must carry (see Figure 1). Figure 1. Composition and Structure of Rigid Pavement. Rigid pavements