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| Project Information | ||
| Project ID: | FHWA-PROJ-11-0180 | |
| Project Name: | Imaging of Aggregates Using Aggregate Imaging System (AIMS) II | |
| Project Status: | Active | |
| Start Date: | October 1, 2011 | |
| End Date: | September 30, 2013 | |
| Contact Information | ||
| Last Name: | Meininger | |
| First Name: | Richard C (Rick) | |
| Telephone: | 202-493-3191 | |
| E-mail: | richard.meininger@dot.gov | |
| Office: | Office of Infrastructure Research and Development | |
| Team: | Pavement Materials Team [HRDI-10] | |
| Program: | Innovative Pavement Research and Deployment | |
| Laboratory: | Aggregate and Petrographic Laboratory | |
| Project detail | ||
| Roadmap/Focus area(s): | Infrastructure Research and Technology Strategic Plan and Roadmap | |
| Project Description: | Characterize all of the research fine and coarse aggregates used in pavement research at Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) for concrete, asphalt, and granular base layers. Create an accessible database for use by all pavement researchers at TFHRC. | |
| Goals: |
The objective is to characterize all of the research fine and coarse aggregates used in pavement research at Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) for concrete, asphalt, and granular base layers. Contractor and Federal personnel calibrated the Aggregate Imaging System (AIMS) II equipment and run shape, angularity, and texture scans on all the available research fine and coarse aggregates at TFHRC.
Develop an accessible database for use by all pavement researchers at TFHRC.
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| Background Information: | The Aggregate Imaging System (AIMS) II equipment is the product of the Federal Highway Association's (FHWA) Highways for Life interlaboratory study of precision by a number of highway materials laboratories. | |
| Field Test: | Federal Highway Association's (FHWA's) Highways for Life interlaboratory study of precision by a number of highway materials laboratories. | |
| Product Type: | Data Draft standard, specifications, or guidelines Research report Techbrief | |
| Test Methodology: | Characterize all of the research fine and coarse aggregates at Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) using the Aggregate Imaging System (AIMS) II. | |
| Expected Benefits: | Provide consistent means of characterizing aggregate shape, angularity, and texture. | |
| Deliverables: | Name: Database on research aggregate properties. Product Type(s): Research report, Data, Draft standard, specifications, or guidelines, Techbrief Description: Data on aggregate shape, angularity, and texture that can be linked to pavement layer research. | |
| Related URL(s): | http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/hfl/partnerships/aims.cfm |
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| FHWA Topics: | Research/Technologies--FHWA Research and Technology | |
| TRT Terms: | Aggregates Aggregates by Shape and Surface Texture Infrastructure Research Pavements Concrete Asphalt |
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| FHWA Disciplines: | Pavement and Materials |
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| Subject Areas: | Construction Materials Pavements |
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