Evaluación visual y estructural del pavimento de la vía que va desde la intersección con La Troncal de la sierra (E35) a la comunidad Galte Chine Pungo, en el tramo km 4+000 hasta km 8+000, de la parroquia Palmira, cantón Guamote, provincia de Chimborazo

Abstract

A properly maintained road network system is essential to extend the useful life of a road, provide a high level of serviceability, comfort and safety to the user. For this reason, it was necessary to visually and structurally analyze the pavement of the road that goes from the intersection with La Troncal de la Sierra (E35) to the Galte Chine Pungo Community, in the section KM 4+000 to KM 8+000, recognizing the present faults and the interpretation of pavement deflections to propose a road maintenance plan appropriate to its conditions. The development of this experimental work was divided into three main phases: in the first, the samples for testing were extracted, the traffic volume, the Pavement Condition Index and road deflections were determined; In the second, the data obtained from the field were processed to determine the TPDA, the number of equivalent axles, the condition of the track by calculating the PCI and the deflections; In the last one, a road maintenance plan was proposed with its budget. The methodology used was generally quantitative because mathematical processes were used. As a result, type I deflections were obtained with a subgrade and a pavement with good behavior, the average PCI was 78.28 points, therefore it is a road in good condition that needs routine maintenance and a reference budget of $104,337.93.