what is the importance of air void content in bituminous pavements?
Changing Air voids percentage : We change the air voids percentage to check its effects on the fatigue life and rut depth and plot those results on graph. 1. First of all we open mitch pave 2. Then we go to option no 4 (modify an existing) file menu. 3. After in this menu we press 1 to change the initial settings where we change file name and leave the rest as be then we press f1 key to save. 4. After pressing f1 we are now in the new menu which is shown in the figure 3.4 and here we change the value of air voids. This is highlighted in figure. 5. After that we press f1 again to save our changes and this takes us back to modify and existing file menu. 6. Now we press 2 to modify material type. 7. We do not change anything in this menu and press f1 to go back to modify an existing data file menu. 8. Now we press 3 to go to the next menu which is named as modify material properties here we also do not change anything we just press f1 to go back to modify an existing fil...