6. French sizing method approach
Once a type of structure has been chosen and pre-dimensioned, either by reference to the catalog of structures or based on the designer's experience, the dimensioning process involves a number of stages which will be reviewed in the following paragraphs, and whose logic is well summarized in standard NFP 98-082 of January 1994 and standard NF P 98-086 of May 2019 (see Pour en savoir plus) :
"The repeated action of a rolling load on the roadway causes four types of damage:
surface wear of the wearing course due to tangential forces;
rutting due to creep of the bonded layers under the effect of vertical stresses and tangential forces;
fatigue of the treated layers, caused by their bending under the action of loads ;
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