Response models

Typically pavement responses are calculated using mutilayer elastic theory (MET), which has been implemented into various computer programs. Finite element method may also be used to account for non-linearities such as joints, cracks, debonding, and frictional interfaces. To speed up the design process, finite element runs are typically conducted in advanced and regression models are in turn developed to preform the necessary interpolation or extrapolation.

This part of the M-E methis is mechanistic.