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@article{172840,
        author = {Sanket Adhikrao Jadhav and Hemant Amrutrao Kuwar},
        title = {SURFACE  DISTRESS  ANALYSIS OF  FLEXIBLE  PAVEMENTS: A  COMPARISON OF  RATING METHODS},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {11},
        number = {9},
        pages = {1057-1061},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=172840},
        abstract = {After excessive needs for pavement maintenance, rehabilitation and the limitation of available fund it is require doing pavement distress analysis and pavement condition rating for flexible roads. Distress analysis and pavement condition rating is use for maintenance budget. It is commonly found that rate of wearing and tearing of flexible roads changes from good condition to sever condition within a decade of time. The study is carried out of 59 km length road from the different location of Six Laned Pimpalgaon-Nashik-Gonde NH-03. The lanes are surveyed to find out different distresses conditions based on Indian Road Congress (IRC) and WSDOT Guidelines. The importance of this study is also that, it will helpful to the agencies for use of most suitable method of PCI calculation. To compare both the methods the similarity study and correlation analysis is carried out. The study identified nine types of distresses from which best maintenance rehabilitation strategies are proposed. This study gives solution for urgent repairing and maintenance of damaged roads.},
        keywords = {Distress analysis, Physical survey, Pavement condition index, Correlation analysis},
        month = {February},
        }