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This paper has presented a brief review of principles for the design of pavement for orthotropic steel plate decks. Issues on the local displacement and negative bending behaviour under truck loading, main distresses in asphalt surfacing and their mechanism, and basic requirements are included. A fatigue based mechanical-experimental design procedure was proposed for the designing of deck pavement. It is pointed out that new models to accurately describe the composite interaction between asphalt layer and steel deck plates, interaction between asphalt layer's fatigue and bonding membrane damage and their influences, and a more precise performance based design methods are still need to be further investigated.