Data corresponding to paper: "Incorporation of a Viscoelastic-Elastoplastic Material Model for Asphalt based on the Multiscale Microlayer Model into an ALE Formulation for Pavement Structures Considering Dynamic Tire Loadings" by May et al. (submitted 2025)

This data publication contains the data related to the scientific contribution "Incorporation of a Viscoelastic-Elastoplastic Material Model for Asphalt based on the Multiscale Microlayer Model into an ALE Formulation for Pavement Structures Considering Dynamic Tire Loadings" by May et al. (submitted 2025).

Abstract of the corresponding paper: During braking, acceleration, and steering maneuvers in road traffic, dynamic vertical loads are introduced into the pavement structure. These loads give rise to complex multiaxial stress states within the layered pavement structure, which consists of materials with differing mechanical behavior. The dynamic nature of these maneuvers requires that the resulting stress states have to be considered over large spatial and temporal intervals. In this work, a novel multiscale ALE-FEM approach is introduced for the first time, capable of capturing the complex, multiaxial stress states within the asphalt pavement during steering and acceleration maneuvers. Numerical efficiency and physical representativeness are achieved through the use of a finite viscoelastic–elastoplastic material model embedded in the microlayer framework, a thermodynamically derived multiscale approach that avoids the computational cost of a conventional FE² scheme. Additionally, the application of a dynamic Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) formulation ensures that the meshed geometry remains small in comparison to the extensive length of the actually traversed road section. To experimentally determine the loads generated by a tire during a steering maneuver, a single-wheel test rig is used, in which, the side slip angle is systematically varied. The measured data is then used to generate time- and space-resolved footprints, which serve as realistic boundary conditions for simulating tire pavement interaction.