TAC Pavement ME User Group - Canadian Climate Trials

The major objective of the NCHRP 1-37A project was to develop a document for adaptation by AASHTO as its new Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) for new and rehabilitated pavement structures. The development of the new AASHTO MEPDG and its supporting software DARWin ME (later re-named to Pavement ME Design), has changed existing pavement design procedures, but would need to be adapted and calibrated for local conditions. The Pavements and Soils and Materials Standing Committees of the Transportation Association of Canada initiated a Pool Fund project to provide guidance to Canadian agencies on adaptation and calibration of the MEPDG to Canadian conditions. The calibration process began with the development of a database of historical Canadian climate information for various locations across the country, which has since been included in Pavement ME Design. The user group began running trial designs and comparing the variability in results. A flexible pavement design was provided by Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation that was used as the base design. This base design was modified for various climate stations across Canada, while keeping all other input parameters consistent. Design trials were then completed by changing the season in which the pavement structure was constructed, followed by evaluating the impact of changing asphalt cement grade in the asphalt mixtures. The objective of this paper is to present the results of the trials completed by the TAC Pavement ME user group, and highlight some of the findings of the analysis. For the covering abstract of this conference see ITRD record number 201310RT334E.

• Record URL:
  http://conf.tac-atc.ca/english/annualconference/tac2013/session8/popik.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)

  401-1111 Prince of Wales Drive
  Ottawa, Ontario  Canada 
• Authors:
  • POPIK, M
  • JUHASZ, M
  • Chan, S
  • DONOVAN, H
  • St-Laurent, D
• Conference:
  • 2013 CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION OF THE TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION OF CANADA - TRANSPORTATION: BETTER - FASTER - SAFER
• Publication Date: 2013

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 13 p.
• Monograph Title: 2013 Conference and Exhibition of the Transportation Association of Canada - Transportation: Better - Faster - Safer

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Calibration; Case studies; Conferences; Data files; Pavement design; Software; Test tracks; Weather
• Uncontrolled Terms: Input data
• Geographic Terms: Canada
• ITRD Terms: 6171: Calibration; 8018: Canada; 8531: Case study; 8525: Conference; 8634: Input data; 3055: Pavement design; 8645: Software; 2789: Test track; 2545: Weather
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pavements; I22: Design of Pavements, Railways and Guideways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01518061
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)
• Files: ITRD, TAC
• Created Date: Mar 11 2014 11:00AM