A four-lane northbound section of interstate has rigid pavement and was designed with an 8-inch slab, 90% reliability, a 700 lb/in2 concrete modulus of rupture, a 5 million lb/in2 modulus of elasticity, a 3.0 load transfer coefficient, and an overall standard deviation of 0.3. The initial PSI is 4.6 and the TSI is 2.5. The pavement was conservatively designed (assuming the upper limit of the W18 design lane load) to last 20 years, and the CBR is 25 with a drainage coefficient of 1.0.
A design mistake was made that ignored 1000 total northbound (daily) passes of trucks with 22-kip single and 30-kip tandem axles. What slab thickness should have been used?