Pavements Design

Status of Pavement Design in the US (2003)

FHWA considers implementation of mechanistic-empirical pavement design a critical element in improving the National Highway System. To help move the implementation forward, FHWA intends to provide significant support for these efforts. To kick start this endeavor, the Design Guide Implementation Team (DGIT) worked with the FHWA division office materials and pavement engineers to complete a questionnaire for State highway agencies on the current status of pavement design. The questionnaire consisted of seven short questions pertaining to planned or current activities related to implementation of mechanistic-empirical design. Forty-eight State division offices and the District of Columbia responded to the questionnaire.

Materials

Traffic

Climate

Asphalt

SuperPave Models and Software

Concrete

Design Guide Implementation Team

PDF files can be viewed with the Acrobat® Reader®

Design and Analysis Materials and Construction Technology Management and Preservation Surface Characteristics Construction and Materials Quality Assurance Environmental Stewardship	Pavements Design Status of Pavement Design in the US (2003) FHWA considers implementation of mechanistic-empirical pavement design a critical element in improving the National Highway System. To help move the implementation forward, FHWA intends to provide significant support for these efforts. To kick start this endeavor, the Design Guide Implementation Team (DGIT) worked with the FHWA division office materials and pavement engineers to complete a questionnaire for State highway agencies on the current status of pavement design. The questionnaire consisted of seven short questions pertaining to planned or current activities related to implementation of mechanistic-empirical design. Forty-eight State division offices and the District of Columbia responded to the questionnaire. Materials Pavement Materials Resilient Modulus Traffic Obtaining Traffic Data to Support M-E Design Traffic Data for Pavement Design Workshops Climate LTPP DGIT One-day workshop on Climatic inputs to M-E Pavement Design and the EICM Asphalt SuperPave Models and Software Concrete CPTP Products CPTP Update, July 2005 Mobile Concrete Laboratory Design Guide Implementation Team Traffic Inputs for M-E PDG Design Guide Implementation Team Events Workshop Registration Workshop Webcasts Software Download: NCHRP 1-37A Pavement Design Guide Workshops: Materials Inputs for Design Interactive Website: NCHRP 1-40 User Comments Mechanistic - Empirical Pavement Design (pdf version, 0.1 mb) General DRIP 2.0 - Drainage Requirements in Pavements Software (.zip, 5 mb) User's Manual Construction of a Pavement Subsurface Drainage System Life-Cycle Cost Analysis in Pavement Design (pdf version, 0.1 mb) Recycling Fly Ash Facts for Highway Engineers Publications Concrete Pavement Technology Update August 2008, FHWA-IF-08-015 2008 Concrete Pavement Technology Update August 2007, FHWA-IF-07-037 2007 Long-Life Concrete Pavements in Europe and Canada, FHWA-PL-07-027 2007 TechBrief: Long-Life Concrete Pavements: Best Practices and Directions from the States, FHWA-IF-07-030 2007 TechBrief: Thin Whitetopping - the Colorado Experience, FHWA-IF-07-025 2007 View all Design Publications PDF files can be viewed with the Acrobat® Reader®	Events View all Upcoming Pavements Events More Information Design Guide Implementation Team Pavement Publications Contacts Chris Wagner Resource Center (Atlanta) 404-562-3693 E-mail Chris Eric Weaver Turner Fairbank 202-493-3153 E-mail Eric Jim Sherwood Turner Fairbank 202-493-3150 E-mail Jim
	This page last modified on 03/22/07