Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Shell Pavement design method is used in many countries for the design of new asphalt roads. The main input consists of soil parameters, parameters (thickness and stiffness) for the other road foundation materials, and the expected number of times a standard load passes over. The output of the calculation is the thickness of the asphalt layer. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.