Abstract
The writers would like to express their appreciation to the discusser for taking time to read this paper and provide his insightful viewpoint. The writers are in general agreement with the discusser's comments and this closure allows them to further clarify some of the statements in the original paper. Frost Heave and Change of Moisture Conditions after a Freezing Process The writers appreciate the discusser's further explanation and elaboration of results presented in Table 1 and Figs. 5 and 8. Permanent Deformation Modeling The writers agree with the discusser that the R2 values of Eqs. (2) – (4) in the Tseng and Lytton (1989) model are high enough to indicate the good prediction of the model. Therefore, the first three reasons elaborated in the original paper contribute to the difference between the predicted and measured permanent deformation. Comparing Permanent Deformation Predicted Using Sweere and Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide Models in Fig. 12, dashed lines are used to depict results at moisture content (MC) of 3.3%, and solid lines are used to depict results at MC of 5.3%. In addition, solid circles, solid triangles, and crosses are used to represent measured results and predicted results by the Sweere (1990) model and by the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) (ARA 2004) model, respectively. Due to the scattered results at two different MCs in one figure, the figure may not be very easy to read, especially for results at MC of 3.3%. However, the writers confirm that the interpretation of results presented in the figure that "for the never-frozen materials, at water content of 3.3%, both models provided reasonable permanent deformations [solid curves in the figure] : : : [and] at the OMC [5.3%], the Sweere model provided a slightly better prediction of permanent deformation when compared with the MEPDG model [dashed curves in the figure]" was correct. The writers do concur that the readability of Fig. 12 could be improved to avoid any confusion.
Recommended Citation
J. Liu et al., "Erratum: Characterizing Permanent Deformation of Alaskan Granular Base-Course Materials (Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)MT.1943-5533.0002911)," Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, vol. 33, no. 7, article no. 07021011, American Society of Civil Engineers, Jul 2021.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)MT.1943-5533.0003870
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1943-5533; 0899-1561
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Publication Date
01 Jul 2021
