Factors contribute to flexible pavement failure in Perak

In recent years, the deteriorating condition of the flexible pavements due to the effect of increase heavy vehicles load has become the subject of great concern of many. Road construction in most countries faces challenges where there is obvious failure in road pavement. Majority of road in Malaysia are using flexible pavement. The contractor has taken a few initiatives to improve the pavement and reduce the failure of pavement, but the failure is still happening. The aim of this research is to analyse the factor contribute to flexible pavement failure to help the authorities including contractor to improve their roles in making flexible road pavements strong and safe for the user based on problem of the current road. The failure of the road pavement has causing inconvenience to the road user and sometimes can cause accident among users. In this study, objectives of the research are to determine the factor that contributing to the failure of the flexible pavements, to identify the failure severity of flexible pavement that obstruct the functions of the road and to suggest the improvement for reducing the failure of the flexible pavement for the future road construction. It is important to improve and reduce the failure of the flexible pavement for the future road construction. In order to achieve this objective, a quantitative method of research is used and questionnaire as the tools for data collection.