The resilient modulus (MR) of roadbed soils is a necessary parameter in pavement design. The MR of roadbed soils is dependent on the soil type, water content, dry density, particle gradation, Atterberg limits, and stress states. Several procedures can be used for the determination of the; laboratory testing, backcalculation using nondestructive deflection test (NDT) data, and correlations to other soil parameters such as California BearingRatio (CBR), density, and water content. The first procedure is time consuming, expensive and requires substantial resources to cover the various roadbed soils under the road network. The second is relatively in-expensive, fast and can be designed to cover representative soils under the pavement network. The third procedure is approximate and may be used for the level-2 design of the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (M-EPDG). The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) sponsored a research project for the development of a systematic procedure to determine the MR valuesfor all soil types encountered under the pavement network in the State ofMichigan. The procedure includes laboratory testing of representative disturbed and undisturbed soil samples, NDT using the MDOT Falling Weight Deflectometer, and developing correlations between the MR values obtained from the two tests and between the MR values and other soil parameters that can be obtained using simple tests. The developed correlation equations between the MR measured values and the other soil parameters are presented elsewhere (1), whereas the correlations between the laboratory obtained and the backcalculated MR values are discussed in this paper.
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