Pavement System Design
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Course Overview
To improve your pavement design techniques, you’ll learn about all aspects of pavement system design, including the testing of soil/base substructure, pavement material mix design, and pavement thickness design. You will also learn improvement methods for existing solids, Hot-Mix Asphalt (HMA) design methods and modification, as well as Portland cement concrete (PCC) material selection. Through detailed examples, you’ll understand how certain materials can optimize the thickness selected for pavement layers based on the most commonly used analysis and design procedures, ultimately giving you the ability to predict their performance.
Who Should Attend?
This course will benefit engineers, technicians, public works professionals, and contractors who investigate, design, and construct roads and pavements.
- Engineers who manage consultants, design pavements and conduct pavement condition ratings
- Contractors and estimators who design and supply paving materials and equipment
- Paving contractors and their technical staff members
- Facility managers for campuses, developments, and business parks
- Geotechnical and materials engineers
- Project and laboratory managers
- Inspectors and QC/QA personnel
- Engineering managers who decide if and when to implement Mechanistic-Empirical (M-E) design and calibrate M-E models to local conditions
Course Outline
Day 1
Part 1 – Soils and Roads
Introduction to Roads and Pavements
- Course introduction and objectives
- Damage mechanisms
- traffic loads
- freeze-thaw cycling
- wet-dry cycling
- Structural numbers
James M. Tinjum, PE, PhD
Program Director
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Soil and Geotechnical Inputs for Roads and Pavement Design
- AASHTO soil classification
- Strength parameters
- California bearing ratio
- unconfined compressive strength
- resilient modulus
- r-value
- AASHTO and MEPDG Geotechnical inputs
James M. Tinjum, PE, PhD
Field Investigation Scope, Laboratory Testing Program, and Construction QA/QC
- Soils Field Investigation
- number and depth of investigation points
- exploration techniques
- boring logs
- Geotechnical reporting
- Correlations for soil properties
- Field QA/QC
- falling weight deflectometer
- dynamic cone
- proctor compaction curves, density testing
James M. Tinjum, PE, PhD
Unpaved Roads, Working Platforms, and Haul Roads
- Army Corps of Engineers method
- Giroud-Noiray and Giroud-Han methods
- Working platforms
James M. Tinjum, PE, PhD
Soil and Subbase Improvement
- Chemical stabilization
- lime, fly ash, Portland cement
- Geosynthetics
- geotextiles, geogrids, geosynthetic drains
- Recycled Material as subbase and base
- recycled concrete aggregate (RCA)
- recycled pavement material (RPM)
- recycled asphalt pavement (RAP)
- foundry slag/sand
- bottom ash
James M. Tinjum, PE, PhD
Unpaved Roads, Haul Roads, and Construction Access
- Army Corps of Engineers method
- Giroud-Noiray and Giroud-Han methods
James M. Tinjum, PE, PhD
Part 2 – Materials for Pavements
Hot-Mix Asphalt (HMA)
- Asphalt cement
- source, production, and grades
- test methods
- effect on pavement performance
- visco-elastic and failure properties
- Liquid asphalts
- emulsions, cutbacks, and grades
- production methods
- surface treatments
- Gradation and properties of aggregates
- gradation requirements
- physical properties
- test methods
- superpave design requirements
- Portland cement (PC) types and properties
- PC production and cement properties
- modulus, strength, and durability
- water cement ratio, curing, and volume changes
- aggregate requirements and admixtures
Hussain U. Bahia, PhD
Professor
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Day 2
Asphalt Mixture Design and Testing
- Stresses/Strains in flexible pavements
- Visco-elastic systems and moving loads
- Mixture design methodologies
- Marshall, Hveem, superpave
- Thermal properties and durability
Hussain U. Bahia, PhD
Part 3 – Pavement Design
Flexible Pavement Design
- Design charts
- Asphalt institute method
- AASHTO method
Rigid Pavement Design
- Design charts
- Portland Cement Association (PCA) Method
- AASHTO Method
Hussain U. Bahia, PhD
Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design
Guide (MEPDG) – Introduction and Geotechnical Inputs
- Empirical methods
- Introduction to MEPDG
- Geotechnical inputs
James M. Tinjum, PE, PhD
Pavement Design with MEPDG
- Flexible pavement design
- Rigid pavement design
Hussain U. Bahia, PhD
Portland Cement Concrete Construction
- Slip from construction and reinforcement placement
- Joint dowels
- Curling practices and finishing
Hussain U. Bahia, PhD
Pavement Performance
- Distress mechanisms
- Serviceability concept
- Design of overlays
Hussain U. Bahia, PhD
Testimonials
"We rate this course overall…excellent! All topics were great for our jobs, the speakers were masters of their topics, and the presentations were very helpful."
—Kenneth Miner, Chief Engineering Inspector, City of Edmond, Edmond, Oklahoma
—Pete Reining, Engineering Inspector, City of Edmond, Edmond, Oklahoma
"The content and presentations were excellent, and the speakers knowledgeable and kept you interested."
—Kevin Haddix, Project Manager, H2M Railroad Consulting, Talking Rock, Georgia
Instructors
Hussain Bahia
Hussain U. Bahia, PhD is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin—Madison where he directs the Modified Asphalt Research Center. His current research and teaching focuses on pavement material and design, particularly on modified asphalts and asphalt mixes. Bahia has been the Technical Director of the Wisconsin Highway Research Program.
James Tinjum
Dr. James M. Tinjum, PE, is responsible for outreach, research, and continuing engineering education in the areas of geotechnical, geoenvironmental, and energy geotechnics with an emphasis on transmitting practical research applications directly to the engineering community. Over the past 10 years, he has specialized (consulting, expert support, and research) in foundation investigation, monitoring, and research into foundations for wind turbine generators.
Pavement System Design
Course #: RA00392Pavement System Design
Date: Tue. September 14, 2021 – Wed. September 15, 2021ID: RA00392-C096
Fee:
- $1,095
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Fee covers morning and afternoon breaks, scheduled lunches, and course materials.
- CEU: 1.6
- PDH: 16
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