Eight pre-conference technical sessions (or tutorials) will be held on Thursday, August 9 and Friday, August 10, 2001. The goal of the pre-conference technical series is to foster a broadening of your pavement knowledge. These tutorials are presented by outstanding US-based and international instructors and will provide state-of-practice information. The information presented in these tutorials is of the highest quality and will assist you with the technical material covered in the conference sessions. The tutorials will provide you the opportunity to focus and are organized by two concurrent tracks: analysis and design/construction.
Pre-Conference Tutorial Registration
Register for your choice of pre-conference tutorials by completing the Tutorial Registration form and including it with your conference registration. The fee for each tutorial includes instruction, course notes and refreshments. See below for full descriptions. Tutorial Registration Form. (Adobe pdf format.)
Location
The tutorials will be held at the WestCoast Grand Hotel on Fifth Avenue in downtown Seattle.
Analysis: HDM-4 and Case Studies
This session will overview the HDM-4 software that has the capability to
evaluate project and network relationships between pavement design, deterioration,
road user effects, safety, energy consumption and environmental effects.
Case studies will be presented. This powerful software is not widely used
in the USA and this is a unique opportunity to see illustrations of its
capability.
Design/Construction: Pavement Structural Design for New and Rehabilitated
Pavements
This session will cover new or reconstructed flexible and rigid pavement
design. A special emphasis will be made on mechanistic-empirical approaches
and the upcoming system being developed in the USA via NCHRP 1-37A (often
referred to as "AASHTO 2002"). Additionally, the basics associated
with pavement rehabilitation will be covered.
Analysis: Nondestructive Testing and Analyses
This session will overview the current pavement nondestructive testing devices
widely used internationally, and will focus on the use of the data from
such devices (with specific emphasis on the Falling Weight Deflectometer).
The fundamentals associated with the backcalculation of layer moduli will
be presented. NDT devices such as Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and the
Dynamic Cone Penetrometer (DCP) will also be featured and the latest applications
described.
Design/Construction: Asphalt Concrete Mix Design
This session will focus on the fundamental elements contained in the Superpave
mixture design system. This will include both the binder specification as
well as the volumetric mix design process. Since the Superpave system continues
to evolve, updated information will be provided about current practices,
research, and field performance of constructed projects.
Analysis: Statistical and Modeling Applications for Managing Pavements
Statistical methods have come to play a major role internationally in managing
pavements including construction specifications, quality control and assurance,
and general decision-making. Modeling of pavement performance is a significant
feature in most PM systems. This session will cover general statistical
measures, types of distributions, tests of hypotheses, and pavement performance
model building.
Design: Pavement Specifications and Contracts
This session will focus on pavement specifications and contracts. Of special
interest are statistically based quality assurance specifications and quality
control programs. One focus will be to broadly explain the risks associated
with QA specifications. Various types of traditional and new types of pavement
contracts (such as warranties) will be presented.
Analysis: Life Cycle Costing and Multi-Year Prioritization
This session will focus on life cycle cost analyses (LCCA) and start by
introducing the fundamental principles of the process and components such
as alternative development, costing, discount rates, and work zone user
costs. A treatment of probabilistic LCCA will follow along the lines presented
by the FHWA in recent LCCA workshops. The purpose is to quantify the risks
associated with the variability of input assumptions, estimates, and projections
in LCCA results. A treatment of multi-year prioritization (MYP) will illustrate
how MYP analysis evaluates the most appropriate combination of projects
and timings for a specific budget level over an analysis period. MYP can
provide your agency with substantial information to evaluate the effectiveness
of your pavement management process.
Design/Construction: Low Volume Road Design
This session will assist those who manage low volume roads. Low volume road
design is especially challenging since cost is always a major factor and
alternative designs and materials are possible. The instructor will present
a summary of the best international knowledge currently available concerning
cost effective designs.
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