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A rigid pavement is on a highway with two lanes in one direction, and the pavement is conservatively designed. The pavement has an 11-inch slab with a modulus of elasticity of 5,000.000 lb/in2 and a concrete modulus of rupture of 700 lb/in2, and it is on a soil with a CBR of 25. The design drainage coefficient is 1.0, the overall standard deviation is 0.3, and the load transfer coefficient is 3.0. The pavement was designed to last 20 years (initial PSI of 4.7 and a final PSI of 2.5) with 95% reliability carrying trucks with one 18-kip single axle and one 28-kip tandem axle. However, after the pavement was designed, one more lane was added in the design direction (conservative design still used), and the weight limits on the trucks were increased to a 20-kip single and a 34-kip tandem axle (the slab thickness was unchanged from the original two-lane design with lighter trucks). If climate change has caused the drainage coefficient to drop to 0.8, how long will the pavement last with the new loading and the additional lane (same volume of truck traffic? For thickness, please round-off to the nearest ¼ inch if necessary.
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