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Publication Number:  FHWA-HRT-15-063     Date:  March 2017
Publication Number: FHWA-HRT-15-063
Date: March 2017

 

Enhanced Analysis of Falling Weight Deflectometer Data for Use With Mechanistic-Empirical Flexible Pavement Design and Analysis and Recommendations for Improvements to Falling Weight Deflectometers

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