DG Track 2:
Performance-Based Design Guide for New and Rehabilitated Concrete Pavements
Track Goal: Mechanistic-based concrete pavement designs will be reliable, economical, constructible, and maintainable throughout their design life and meet or exceed the multiple needs of the traveling public, taxpayers, and the owning highway agencies. The advanced technology developed under this track will increase concrete pavement reliability and durability (with fewer early failures and lane closures) and help develop cost effective pavement design and rehabilitation.
Current projects
- Long-Term Performance of Portland Cement Concrete Pavement
- Technical Assistance to NCHRP and NCHRP Project 1-40A to Produce Versions 0.9 and 1.0 of the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide Software
- Technical Assistance to NCHRP and NCHRP Project 1-40A to Produce Versions 0.9 and 1.0 of the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide Software
- Guidelines for Dowel Alignment in Concrete Pavements
- Deterioration of Stainless Steel Dowel Tubes Under Repeated Loading
- Evaluation and Implementation of Improved CRCP and JPCP Design Methods for Illinois
- Environmental Effects in Pavement Mix and Structural Design Systems
- Development of an Extended Life Concrete Pavement in California
- Accelerated Pavement Testing of Extended Life CRCP
- Incremental improvements to mechanistic-empirical pavement design guide procedures
- Implementation of the MEPDG Procedures Developed Under NCHRP 1-37A and 1-40D
- Effects of Subsurface Drainage on Performance of Asphalt and Concrete Pavements: Further Evaluation and Analysis of LTPP SPS-1 and SPS-2 Field Sections
- Evaluation of the 1-37A Design Process for New and Rehabilitated Jointed and Asphalt Concrete Pavements
- Technical Assistance to NCHRP and NCHRP Project 1-40A to Produce Versions 0.9 and 1.0 of the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide Software
- Allowable Axle Loads on Pavements
- Mechanistic-Empirical Rigid Pavement Design Procedure for Caltrans
- Accelerated Testing of Life Jacket Dowels
- Mechanistic-Empirical Rigid Pavement Design Procedure for Caltrans
- Environmental Effects in Pavement Mix and Structural Design Systems (Proj. 9-23)
- Improved Slab-Subgrade Interaction Model for Predicting the Dynamic Response of Jointed Concrete Pavements
- Improving Traffic Characterization to Enhance Pavement Design and Performance: Load Spectra Development
- Improved Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Process for JPCP
- Traffic Data Collection, Analysis, and Forecasting for Mechanistic Pavement Design
- Calibration of Mechanistic-Empirical Design Procedures
- Technical Assistance to NCHRP and NCHRP Project 1-40A to Produce Versions 0.9 and 1.0 of the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide Software
- Local Calibration guidance for the Mechanistic-Empirical Guide for New and Rehabilitated Pavement Structures
- FHWA CPTP Task 58 - Precast Prestressed Concrete Pavements
- Develop a Mechanistic-Based Tie Bar Design Procedure
Upcoming priorities
Not yet identified.
Subtracks
- Subtrack 1: Design Guide Structural Models
- Subtrack 2: Design Guide Inputs, Performance Models, and Reliability
- Subtrack 3: Special Design and Rehabilitation Issues
- Subtrack 4: Improved Mechanistic Design Procedures
- Subtrack 5: Design Guide Implementation
People involved
Track Coordinator:
Dale Harrington, Snyder & Assoc, dharrington@snyder-associates.com, 515-290-4014
Track Team Leadership:
Mike Ayers, ACPA, mayers@pavement.com, (217) 621-3438
Angel Correa, FHWA, angel.correa@fhwa.dot.gov, (404) 562-3907
Gary Crawford, FHWA, gary.crawford@fhwa.dot.gov, (202) 366-1286
Danny Dawood, Pennsylvania DOT, ddawood@state.pa.us, (717) 787-4246
John Donahue, Missouri DOT, John.Donahue@modot.mo.gov, (573) 751-3002
Mohamed Elfino, Virginia DOT, Mohamed.Elfino@VDOT.Virginia.gov, (804) 328-3173
Andrew Gisi, Kansas Department of Transportation, agisi@ksdot.org, (785) 296-3008
Tom Harman, FHWA, tom.harman@fhwa.dot.gov, (202) 366-0859
Todd LaTorella, Missouri/Kansas ACPA, toddl@moksacpa.com, (913) 381-2251
Katherine Petros, FHWA, Katherine.Petros@fhwa.dot.gov, (202) 493-3154
Jim Powell, Northwest ACPA, jimpowell@nwpavement.com, (360) 965-7080
Randy Riley, ACPA-Illinois Chapter, pccman@insightbb.com, 217-793-4933
Robert Rodden, ACPA, rrodden@pavement.com, (847) 972-9808
Jeff Roesler, University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign, jroesler@uiuc.edu, (217) 265-0218
Bryce Simons, New Mexico DOT, bryce.simons@nmshtd.state.nm.us, (505) 827-5191
Jeff Uhlmeyer, Washington DOT, uhlmeyj@wsdot.wa.gov, (360) 709-5485
Julie Vandenbossche, University of Pittsburgh, jmv@pitt.edu, (412) 624-9879
Matt Zeller, Minnesota ACPA, mjzeller@cpamn.com, (651) 762-0402