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With reference to pavement conditions, CRCP is an exceptional type of concrete pavement according to the Highway Pavement Condition Index (HPCI) and International Roughness Index (IRI). The two main design methods for CRCP are AASHTO 86\/93 and the Mechanistic\u2013Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG). Because of limitations of the AASHTO 86\/93 design method, the MEPDG method is more reliable. While incorporating the interactions among geometrics, pavement structure layers, material properties, subgrade, traffic, and environmental conditions, and the prediction values according to the MEPDG method, it matched the measured results of crack spacing and crack width. The MEPDG punchout, crack width and spacing, and load transfer efficiency (LTE) models were evaluated, and results were compared with the test sections in three European countries consisting of different construction details, which were investigated and recorded between 2019 and 2021. In this sense, a calculation tool was developed to consider the influence of different parameters in design process. In addition, sensitivity analyses were executed for the development of punchout, considering various input parameters. The track surveying and the evaluation of the results indicated that the design process can be improved with consideration of some criteria such as crack formation time or adjustment of the correlation between crack width and crack spacing. Due to the very important function of erosion and resulting pumping in the deterioration of CRCP, it is advisable to include the influence of the base layer and the influence of different shoulder type and heavy traffic volume or effect of deflection in the calculations.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ma16010358","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,30]],"date-time":"2022-12-30T03:19:46Z","timestamp":1672370386000},"page":"358","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Evaluation and Improvement of the Current CRCP Pavement Design Method"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Milad","family":"Moharekpour","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Highway Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Mies-van-der-Rohe-Str. 1, 52074 Aachen, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5983-7305","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pengfei","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Highway Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Mies-van-der-Rohe-Str. 1, 52074 Aachen, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Markus","family":"Oeser","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Highway Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Mies-van-der-Rohe-Str. 1, 52074 Aachen, Germany"},{"name":"Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt), Br\u00fcderstr. 53, 51427 Bergisch Gladbach, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Rasmussen, R.O., Rogers, R., and Ferragut, T.R. 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