Flexible Pavement Analysis - Study of a critical stretch on the AM highway - 010

The main means of transport used in Brazil to move people and cargo are highways, making it indispensable to maintain and recover the highway network to attend the socioeconomic demands of the country. Therefore, it is essential to evaluate the need of each highway, according to the performance and durability of the pavement and according to the types of pathologies presented. This study aims to analyze the pathological problems existing in a stretch of the state highway AM - 010, between the capital of Amazonas, Manaus, and county Rio Preto da Eva, analysis to be done post photographic survey. Then the images of the pathologies were evaluated, diagnosed and classified accordingly norm of the National Department of Transport Infrastructure, DNIT. In the section evaluated the most common pathologies were: cracks, sinking, slippages, patches executed irregularly and pot holes, in addition to points without roadsides, compromised structure or obstructed, impossible to be used.