It calculates the cumulative damage induced by the traffic spectrum. This 70 page manual relies on the proven port pavement design methods in use since 1983 by the british ports association. This is of course dependant on the type of material chosen for the road. An integrated pavement design suite for highways, streets, parking lots, airports, and industrial facilities supporting heavy wheel loads. A pavement design report is a formal engineering document that presents all analyses, data, policies, and other considerations used to design the structural aspects of a pavement. There are two types of failure associated with port pavements.
Brasfield and gorrie professor of civil engineering principal investigator dr. It should also be noted that in 2008, aashto released the mechanisticempirical pavement design guide. Pavement design free pavement design software download. Pavement design thickness design durham university. Pdf software development pakpave for flexible pavement design. Bituminous testing spreadsheet version 2, xlsm 400 kb if you have data in a version 1 spreadsheet and would like it updated to version 2, contact bruce. Pavement design resources flexible pavements of ohio. Fulldepth pavement constructed on subgrade deepstrength pavement constructed on thin granular base course aka extendedlife pavement or longlife pavement. Further, the tool includes other cementbased materials. Surface deformation in the order of 50 mm to 75 mm will normally exist at failure. Specialist testing and analysis of failure mechanisms for ports and major hard standing areas. Pavement calculator pavement design calculator software. Want to understand more about cementbased pavement solutions and the best practices for designing them.
The national asphalt pavement association and the state asphalt pavement associations jointly funded the development of a free web based pavement design guide program in 2015 pavexpress. Ncat report 14 04 flexible pavement design state of the practice. This fact makes the job of the pavement design consultant a difficult task when considering structural design of pavements subjected to heavy duty loads. Software for pavement analysis and design pavement research center of excellence department of civil and environmental engineering michigan state university. This fact makes the job of the pavement design consultant a. The easytouse pavement design tool not only covers fulldepth concrete, but also provides design solutions for concrete overlays and composite pavements, explains wayne adaska, p. A mechanisticempirical pavement thickness design program based on familiar asphalt institute methods. Pavementdesigner is built on updated versions of acpas streetpave, airpave, and winpas programs, as well as pcas pcapave program. Software includes input errortrapping for learners. There are four categories of failure associated with port pavements, viz. The first pavement design manual specifically targeted at the port industry was the british ports associations publication entitled the structural design of heavy duty pavements for ports and other industries. The british ports association represents all types and sizes of ports, their operators and facilities throughout the united kingdom. Sw1 asphalt thickness design for highways, airports.
The accompanying software, aashtoware pavement me design, was released in 2011. Engineering students worked cooperatively on design and analysis tasks. Perpetual pavement asphalt pavement designed to last over 50 years without major structural rehabilitation needing only periodic surface renewal. Pavement design and testing parklandgeo has experience with a wide range of pavement options for an even wider range of pavement projects including recreation paths, parking lots, industrial yards, urban streetscapes and major highways in alberta, saskatchewan and ne british columbia. Fifty people participated in the training and tech transfer. The british airports authority baa owns and operates 7 major airports within the u. Our staff have been involved with various large scale projects such as the port of felixstow in suffolk, england which at that time was the largest block paving project used for a port application and the pavements in the port authority of new york and new jersey elizabeth terminal. The results of field plate load tests used to confirm the pavement system design are also presented. Yang and its team of researchers at the port authority of n.
Pavia systems, with sponsorship from the asphalt pavement alliance apa and its constituent members, has developed free online pavement thickness design software called pavexpress. The method of design takes into account the high level of wheel load common in port areas due to heavy plant handling equipment. Design manuals interlocking concrete pavement institute. The fourth edition represents a significant step forward in the design of heavyduty pavements, i. Characterizing existing hotmix asphalt layer damage for mechanistic pavement rehabilitation design fhwaproj140126 demonstration of network level pavement structural evaluation with traffic speed deflectometer fhwaproj095. Port and industrial pavement design with concrete pavers. To able of calculate esal number from daily traffic distribution. Robbins assistant research professor national center for asphalt technology dr. A detailed pavement design for the south intermodal yard, port of tacoma, wa. Structural design methods washington asphalt pavement. The thckness design of the pavement is the determination of the overall thickness of the road and the thickness of the individual layers. A radically new way of analysing pavements is incorporated in the design method. Need a video tutorial on how to use pavementdesigner to design a pavement. On behalf of the portland cement association pca, national ready mixed concrete association nrmca and its affiliate the rmc research and education foundation, and the rcc pavement council, the american concrete pavement association acpa is pleased to announce the launch of a webbased concrete pavement design solution.
The first pavement design manual specifically targeted at the port industry was the british ports associations publication entitled the structural design of heavy duty pavements for. From the formula, the approximate effective depth of the bottom of the pavement base is. Other pavement design resources asphalt paving alliances construction checklist for parking lots this checklist is designed to help the onsite inspector or owners representative identify key aspects of parking lot construction and best practices known to produce a quality pavement project. It uses stateoftheart pavement material properties and performance models. The aim of the port pavement design process is to safeguard the pavement from failure over a predetermined period of time or number of cargo movements. This module serves as a complete package for the design of flexible pavement thicknesses. At the heart of the uk economy ports play a vital role. Port nd trmin pavmnts more information available at au pavement management services provide specialist pavement testing and design services to meet the need of ports and terminal operators in the design, building, rehabilitation and expansion of heavy duty pavements, hard standing and terminal sites. This is the third edition of the british ports association heavy duty pavement design manual for second edition see irrd 819578. American or metric versions include an extensive documentation and help library, as well as onscreen, mouseover advice. Software from acpa american concrete pavement association, development to design pavements according aashto and pca especifications, both asphalt and concrete including. Mnpave flexible minnesota department of transportation. Pavement thickness design evolves with latest software. Since 1987 it has been part of the austroads pavement design guide, the standard for road design in australia and new zealand.
In 2010, adot contracted with applied research associates, inc. To navigate through the ribbon, use standard browser navigation keys. The mechanistic portions of the program rely on finding the tensile strain at the bottom of the asphalt layer, the compressive strain at the top of the subgrade, and the maximum. The north american port pavement design manual 1 z john knapton professor university of newcastle upon tyne newcastle upon tyne, united kingdom david r. Pavement design overlay design reconstruction pavement design module of esurvey civil tools helps you to compute the thickness of various pavement compositions in both overlay design projects and reconstruction projects. Suppose a pavement were designed on ground with a cbr of 7 % and the wheel lateral centers were 600 mm. Ncat report 14 04 flexible pavement design state of. Streetpave 12 is the latest in jointed plain concrete pavement thickness design. A pavement design method intended for use in port areas has been developed by the british ports association and is to be published as a design manual. Sensitivity analysis of heavy pavement design for a container terminal area, case study. Effective depth 3 5010g 2,381 m 94 in by linear interpolation from table 4 the proximity fac tor is 1,86. Introduction this paper describes the north american version of. For pavements with stabilised bases the tensile strain in the base is the active design constraint whereas subgrade compressive strain is the active design constraint for pavements with granular bases.
Authority has not operated a dedicated container terminal of this magnitude before, and a flexible. Or possibly you need a design drawing, specification, or would like to explore where a solution has been implemented. The new program is called faa rigid and flexible iterative elastic layered design, but is known by its acronym, faarfield. After a 10year research and development effort, the federal aviation administration faa is set to debut a new software package for airport pavement thickness design. The third edition of the british ports association heavy duty pavement design manual was published in 1996 and for the first time, a radically new way of analysing pavements is incorporated in the design method. This example demonstrates the efficiencies for designers offered by. Circly leading pavement design software for roads and highways. Assistance to modified asphalt producer with developing pavement designs for the port of new orleans. One influences the other, and failure of each or both leads to decreased operational efficiency or complete operational failure. A design example is also included which presents the design of a port pavement for the doha container terminal in qatar, using the empirical chartbased method, circly via an equivalent axle and hipave.
Provides a quick reference for airport design standards and airport engineering standards for various airportrelated equipment, facilities, and structures contained in series 150 advisory circulars acs. There are presently few recognized technical guidelines available for structural design and evaluation of portand industrial pavements. Abatech has extensive experience in the testing and design of pavements for ports and intermodal facilities. Seminar on airfield pavement design, new faa design software for airport pavement thickness workshop, and. Performs civil engineering calculations for trafficroad geometry, surveyingearthwork, pavement, concrete floors and unit c download transportation engineering software pavement calculator 2. May 14, 2014 software from acpa american concrete pavement association, development to design pavements according aashto and pca especifications, both asphalt and concrete including. Software programs interlocking concrete pavement institute. Based on finite element modeling and the authors extensive experience with port pavements using this design method, interlocking concrete pavements can be designed for container and bulk port operations. Fifty people participated in the training and tech transfer event at the marriott mission valley in san diego.
Circly leading pavement design software for roads and. Icaoalacpafaaacilac seminar on airfield pavement design. The software simplifies the process of using both the 1993 aashto design guide for asphalt pavements and 1998 aashto supplement for concrete pavements. The software is written in strict conformance to the asphalt institute ms1, ms11, ms17, and ms23. Seminar on airfield pavement design, new faa design software for airport pavement thickness workshop, and short course on annex 14 and related documents for the namcarsam regions americas, bogota, columbia, 11 to 16 september 2005 pavement design non conventional materials presented by v. Purpose port pavement design safeguards pavement from failure over a predetermined period of time.
Development of value engineering proposal for alternate pavements at the port of miami, florida. The portal includes pavement design guidance, substructure sensitivity, and asphalt design evaluation capabilities. Characterizing existing hotmix asphalt layer damage for mechanistic pavement rehabilitation design. Rigid pavement design software features the rigid pavement design software features four new or modified design inputs that are not available in darwin.
Sw1 asphalt thickness design for highways, airports, heavy. In this help, the complete procedure is explained in the following 5 topics. Mnpave flexible is a computer program that combines known empirical relationships with a representation of the physics and mechanics behind flexible pavement behavior. British standards bureau of reclamation item specified astm. Need expert guidance or support designing your pavement solution. Newly added with this version is jointed plain concrete overlay designs for all six types bonded on ashpalt, unbonded on asphalt, bonded on concrete, unbonded on concrete, bonded on composite, unbonded on compsosite. Civil engineering pavement design calculation software covers calculations for traffic, road geometry, surveying, earthwork, asphalt pavement, concrete pavement, concrete floors on grade and unit conversions. Flexible pavement design state of the practice ncat report 14. Design permeable interlocking concrete pavement for pedestrian areas, parking lots, alleys and streets, the most durable and repairable permeable pavement surface. Port nd trmin pavmnts more information available at. Jan 08, 2018 users will not have to download updated software or patches. Development of design and construction standards for. Stand alone software version of the pavement design portion of the ce calc website.
Smith director interlocking concrete pavement institute icpi sterling, va, u. There are presently few recognized technical guidelines available for structural design and evaluation of port and industrial pavements. Sensitivity analysis of heavy pavement design for a. The results of the modeling, testing and analyses were used to develop a pavement system standard design and minimum construction specifications for container and cargo yards at the port of tampa. Hipave a mechanistic design tool for flexible port pavements. Chalmette terminal kaiser site, port of new orleans, louisiana 1999.