Determinación del índice de condición del pavimento en la Av. Circunvalación sur entre primera este y Nueve de Mayo

Abstract

The southern ring road is considered a perimeter road, where vehicles that travel to the seaport of the city of Machala frequently circulate, to transport the shrimp and banana products that are exported to other countries; This route, when it is traveled with a lot of concurrence, presents several deteriorations causing many damages to the users that circulate along this road. In asphalt pavements, maintenance operations should be carried out very frequently to solve the damage in a timely manner and avoid causing major damage. In this report the pavement condition index PCI is obtained on the southern ring road between the first east and May 9; The PCI is a method of visual evaluation. In the PCI method, the different types of pavement deterioration are diagnosed and quantified according to their degree of severity, in accordance with ASTM D6433-07. According to the samples made on the road track evaluated, its current average PCI is 69.83, so this asphalt pavement is in a good state. The failures that were identified are: patches with 39.92%, aggregate polish with 30.96%, edge cracks with 9.65%, collapse with 5.62%, depression with 5.01%, exudation with 4.93%, skin of crocodile at 3.52%, and finally the gaps with 0.39%.